On Aug 1, 2019, at 12:52, Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > TLDR: a beginner can read, understand, and use the itertools module > incredibly easily. But putting a recipe aside for your own use later? Forget > it. That took my almost 3 years to get comfortable with.
I can understand that. I could tell you to just bookmark the recipes and get used to coming back there, so you don’t have to figure out how to build and maintain a personal toolbox. But that probably still isn’t an easy sell for novices. But what about `pip install more-itertools`? Hopefully you become comfortable with that a lot faster than 3 years in. If not, the packaging team will probably be disappointed to hear it… (I have occasionally had other people insist that I shouldn’t tell users to pip install things… but those are the same people insisting I should always start by explaining how to do it in Python 2.5 rather than 3.7. The actual people being helped have never seemed reticent.) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/PR2OOYWBVIIHSM755NCH4QZHVNV7FZYN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
