Warning: I thought Python was too slow for real work until I built a data scraper.

Everyone kept saying Python was the best starter language. I was sure it was just hype. Then my friend in Austin asked me to pull info from 500 web pages for a project. I wrote a script with the requests library in about two hours. It ran perfectly and finished the job while I ate lunch. Has anyone else been surprised by how fast a 'slow' language can actually get stuff done?

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blair_gibson781mo ago

Guess we all get stuck on the speedometer reading. The real test is whether the car gets you to the store and back before the ice cream melts. Your scraper passed.

mitchell.daniel1mo ago

Exactly, the whole point is if it works for your life. My old truck's heater took forever, but it always got the job done. That's the only review that really matters.