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someone learning python as their first language knows so little its perfectly fine to let them pollute their global environment. Someone who knows other languages can understand what venv is for.

Instead they can type python to open a shell and use python to immediately run their file.



> perfectly fine

It's not, because you can fuck up system/unrelated app python dependencies and in extreme cases have to reinstall OS. Thankfully as developers migrate away from python/adopt strategies like flatpak this is less of a problem.

Other PLs do not have this problem.




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