I agree that there is little to be gained from requiring perfection, I think there is considerable value in trying to do everything that is within reason. And there are a lot of reasonable things one can do to be nice to users. Allowing the user to install a piece of software without having to alter their system at all is a good thing.
And this brings us back to where this discussion started: it takes real effort to write non-trivial Python code that will run just by installing the program itself. The path of least resistance is to dump all the problems in the lap of the user, which many Python programmers tend to do in practice. That's not very nice to the consumer.
I think Python could benefit from developing empathy with the consumer.
And this brings us back to where this discussion started: it takes real effort to write non-trivial Python code that will run just by installing the program itself. The path of least resistance is to dump all the problems in the lap of the user, which many Python programmers tend to do in practice. That's not very nice to the consumer.
I think Python could benefit from developing empathy with the consumer.