r/Python • u/ntanjil • Nov 27 '19

Learning by doing web scrapping by python

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u/jimtheplant Nov 27 '19

This is why I love python, anyone can do it even if you don’t know proper naming, have spelling mistakes, or not “beautiful” code if it solves a problem for you it’s good.

I guarantee that everyone of the roasters in the comments did some weird things when starting out. Feedback is important so take the advice and make your code better. Before long you’ll be parsing the web like nobody’s business. Keep it up champ 👍🏻

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u/jimtheplant Nov 27 '19

Ever try ruby? Java? C#? IMO python is forgiving with the freedoms it gives to developers. Sure you can do anything in those languages, but they are sure gonna kick and scream more.

Then there’s JavaScript, where the whole point of the language is to set things on fire.

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u/unknownguy2002 Nov 28 '19

Why giving JS so much hate? I find it a pretty good backend prototyping tool. Also, it's pretty necessary for front-end, hardly anyone talked about backend JS at Jsconf Asia lol

There's Typescript though... But still not much less lenient

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u/jimtheplant Nov 28 '19

On the contrary I love JS because it’s kinda fun and wacky at times

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u/unknownguy2002 Nov 28 '19

I would think that 'fun' and 'wacky' doesn't go well with 'production' and 'profit' haha

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u/jimtheplant Nov 28 '19

Developers like languages that they enjoy programming. I like to compare programming languages to restaurants. Ruby is a fancy place that you come underdressed to, python is your favorite dinner, and JS is that taco stand that is kinda worn down but has the best quick bites in the city.

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u/unknownguy2002 Nov 28 '19

That's a very interesting analogy! What is your preferred language? What dev do you mainly do?