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PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL

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89 points Numerlor | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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klreslx ◴[15 Oct 24 18:31 UTC] No.41851609[source]▶
I don't see the point. People who want Jupyter or an IDE know where to find it. Other people who want the basic REPL and mostly use editors anyway are annoyed.

Well, perhaps the usual suspects can get another infoworld self-promotion article out of it.

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influx ◴[15 Oct 24 18:41 UTC] No.41851731[source]▶
There's a tremendous power with defaults and with "batteries included".
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rgollert ◴[15 Oct 24 18:50 UTC] No.41851833[source]▶
The same people removed distutils, which is why at my company we had to update several internal C-extensions.

In these decisions the only thing that matters is if Microsoft, Facebook, Bloomberg or one of their employees is pleased.

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itishappy ◴[15 Oct 24 20:40 UTC] No.41852867[source]▶
It looks like a lot of care went in to disclosing this and providing replacements. Can I ask what you were using it for?

https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/

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cozzyd ◴[15 Oct 24 20:48 UTC] No.41852946[source]▶
The deprecation of distutils caused a ton of havoc for e.g. FreeCAD
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itishappy ◴[15 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41853112[source]▶
I won't argue with that, but I would like to understand why.

If I'm on the right path with these forum threads, it looks like there were issues with how Debian packages python?

https://forum.freecad.org/viewtopic.php?t=67985

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/6753

https://ffy00.github.io/blog/02-python-debian-and-the-instal...

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1. cozzyd ◴[15 Oct 24 23:23 UTC] No.41854132[source]▶
I don't know the details, all I know is because of that I can't currently install FreeCAD from Fedora repositories which is super annoying, and IMO not the fault of either Fedora or FreeCAD...