OT yt-dlp and Python snag

[fred.d]

If you liked Fortran, then you should have tried PASCAL. Sure it needed 
some extensions but it was simple and it was very hard to write bad code.
A very good contractor wrote an assembler/OS interface to Pascal for us 
on a PDP 11 (about 200 lines of code). That allowed us to create a 
duplexed (failover cluster) production line control system in 1983 
written in PASCAL. It also interfaced to some IBM mainframe (harder) and 
a VAX (any youngsters, that's not the sucky thing, look it up).
I can still remember carrying the disk backups on a plane each week with 
the necessary import and export documentation. Case had special 
dispensation to be carry on luggage as it was as big as a small suitcase 
(foam padding) but couldn't go in the hold. Total capacity of that case 
2MB!

... but back to PASCAL all my code has a very familiar structure no 
matter which of the myriad languages I've played with over the years so 
I know what you mean.

Sorry, bit off topic I know but it's horrible weather outside...



On 29/03/2023 11:09, Jim web wrote:
> In article <809b079f-cc32-2027-f825-520c776146a5 at macfh.co.uk>, MacFH - C
> E
> Macfarlane - News <news at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 28/03/2023 15:51, Jim web wrote:
>> Sorry to hear about your wife, commiserations to you both.
>>> In article <a545ac1d-311a-32cd-d5f1-775a26e066d7 at macfh.co.uk>, MacFH
>>> - C E Macfarlane - News <news at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Might as well be sure, so what happens when you type: python --version
>>>>
>>>> If that comes up with 3.7 as desired, what do you get for: pip --help
>>> It gives me  Python 2.7.17
>>>
>>> However if I look in usr/lib/ I can see directories for Python 2.7, 3,
>>> 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.
>> Different versions of Java,
> FWIW I did once try learning and using Java. Gave up after a while because
> by the time I'd written anything the methods became 'deprecated' as the
> caravan morphed on at superluminal speed! 8-[
>
> So I've stuck with my shoddy use of 'C'. No style, just: "does this give me
> the coconut?!" 8-] Oh well, at least I've stopped using FORTRAN. Although
> people who know both can see that my 'C' looks like "FORTRAN in
> disguise"...
>
> (snipped useful info)
>
> When I can, I'll try again to install the new yt-dlp version again from
> scratch. Use a different tack and see. If it doesn't work, I'll give up and
> do something else.
>
> Jim
>