Tried Python's virtual envs for a week, plain pip worked way better for my small projects

I spent like 7 days fighting with venv and conda for a little script I was writing for work, kept getting dependency errors that took hours to fix. Went back to just using pip install and everything worked right away, no headaches. Anyone else find these tools overkill when you're just learning and building simple stuff?

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laura_white991mo ago

Same here, spent a whole weekend debugging venv for a tiny script.

cooper.nathan1mo ago

My buddy Ben spent three days on a Docker setup for a script that just prints "hello world." He still talks about it like it was a war story or something.