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Hypermodern Python seems to have a lot more steps to it than Ye Olde Python, where you put a hello.py file somewhere and did 'python hello.py'.

Yes, yes, I know. But...

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I genuinely thought that was a satire post about over-engineering Python projects

I think it's a very enthusiastic post. Anything can be over engineered - and generally young enthusiastic programmers are keen to learn about the options.

id be tempted to clone the structure of the posts, and replace the images with some stock photos of supermodels lying down on modernist furniture with cobras and other snakes wrapped around them or lying on the floor nearby.

Its not the language python, its the ... how to build a project that others can use. Its the scaffolding that 'just' knowing how to program does not teach you but working in a real environment forces you to learn.

Just skim-read but it seems to cover the sensible parts - all of this applies if you are writing 100,000 lines of code or 3 lines of hello.py

I am trying to write thedevmanual.com which is basically all of that - what it takes to run in real life. it is of course opinionated, and in lockdown :-(

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