categories: Python ...
Python is a "go-to language" that both of us (/who/astynax and /who/histrio) are using to do quick and dirty work. Because
- we know Python quite well
- it is "just here" (if you are using some sort of /Linux)
- it has "batteries included"
The language itself is far from ideal. But if one can tell "a language is just a tool" it will be about Python, a one of many tools in our toolbetls.
- poetry, a "Python packaging and dependency management made easy".
- plumbum, a "shell combinators and more". Quick, dirty, fun, gets stuff done
- click, all you need to build a command-line tool
- prompt_toolkit does all the heavy-lifting when you need to build a REPL (like IPython) or just a text adventure