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mr_toadlast Tuesday at 1:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

I love scripting in Python too. I just hate trying to install other people’s scripts.


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enriqutolast Tuesday at 5:18 PM

> hate trying to install other people’s scripts.

This phrasing sounds contradictory to me. The whole idea of scripts is that there's nothing to install (besides one standard interpreter). You just run them.

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zahlmanlast Tuesday at 3:25 PM

> I just hate trying to install other people’s scripts.

This notion is still strange to me. Just... incompatible with how I understand the term "script", I guess.

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flanked-evergllast Tuesday at 1:05 PM

If they use https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline... then it becomes a breeze to run with uv. Not even a thing.

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