r/PythonLearning • u/kelvinghxt • 2d ago

Python developers: What mistakes wasted the most time when you were learning?

If you could go back to the day you started learning Python, what would you do differently? What resources, habits, or mistakes would you avoid that would have saved you months of confusion?

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u/FoolsSeldom 2d ago

Spending time on social media sites like reddit instead of working on my own projects

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u/tiredITguy42 2d ago

Not using uv for every project.

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u/jpgoldberg 1d ago

Trying to enforce run-time immutability for custom classes. (I had been working mostly in Rust before learning Python.) I had been given the advice, “let Python be Python”, but I had not followed it. I should have.

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u/Avatarbroskib1 1d ago

Giving up on projects midway through simply because I felt unmotivated