Programming

Python is basically runnable pseudo code that you would write on a napkin to explain stuff to somebody. There you don't care about curly backets and naturally indent to show scope. It's way simpler C and if you want to, you can add type hints (aka faux static typing).

Package management is done with pip although nowadays poetry is better as it uses one file to define everything about your project and configure the tools (linter, tester, autoformatter, static type checking)

The advantage of python is that it has lots and lots of libraries. You don't need to fiddle around with the lemmy API - use a library:

• https://pypi.org/project/pylemmy/ - slightly newer
• https://pypi.org/project/Lemmy.py/ - looks abandoned but might suit your needs

Want to connect to musicbrainz? https://pypi.org/project/musicbrainzngs/ is probably the best.

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Create a virtual env (basically allows you to install all your project dependencies in an environment separate from the global one): python3 -m venv .venv.

Activate the virtual in your shell source .venv/bin/activate.

Now you can start installing dependencies. If you want it super simple, use pip install $package, but updating the list of packages you want in your project is manual: pip freeze > requirements.txt (install them again with pip install -r requirements.txt after rm -rf .venv should you want to start fresh) and you can run into problems with clashing dependencies.
So, I recommend using poetry pip install poetry. poetry new . to setup basic project structure, then add runtime dependencies with poetry add $package e.g poetry add pylemmy musicbrainzngs.

It's possible to add dev dependencies with poetry like ruff for linting and autoformatting your code and mypy for static type checking. Your unit tests can be written using unittest from the standard library.

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