python package management improved quite a bit, but it still seems to be the case that the support channels of any project that uses python must necessarily also become the support channel for weird python package management breakage

since tweeting this literally 2 minutes ago i have been made aware of two new and exciting failure modes of python package management

you could write an entire book about nothing but all the weird ways in which python installations get unusably fucked up

is this how people become consultants

if your impulse is to say "if python just used apt-get things would work well", i regret to inform you the python in apt-get is significantly more broken than most other pythons