[ixsploit]

Is there a good resource on how to get better at python prototyping?

The typing system makes it somewhat slow for me and I am faster prototyping in Go then in Python, despite that I am writing more Python code. And yes I use type annotations everywhere, ideally even using pydantic.

I tend to use it a lot for data analytics and exploration but I do this now in nushell which holds up very well for this kind of tasks.

[theshrike79]

Just do it I guess? :D

When I'm receiving some random JSON from an API, it's so much easier to drop into a Python REPL and just wander around the structure and figure out what's where. I don't need to have a defined struct with annotations for the data to parse it like in Go.

In the first phase I don't bother with any linters or type annotations, I just need the skeleton of something that works end to end. A proof of concept if you will.

Then it's just iterating with Python, figuring out what comes in and what goes out and finalising the format.

[ixsploit]

Thank you, but the JSON API stuff is exactly what i am using nushell for at the moment. Makes it trivial to navigate large datasets.

For me it's pretty hard to work without type annotations, it just slows me down.

Don't get me wrong, I really like python for what it is, I simply missing out on the fast prototype stuff that everyone else is capable of.