speedtest-cli stopped working today?

[Tony Arnold]

Hi,

On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 17:04 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 12/04/2021 13:16, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 12:49, Peter Flynn <
> > peter at silmaril.ie
> > > wrote:
> > > So I started with sudo apt install python
> > 
> > I am not a Pythonist but I _think_ that will install Python 2,
> > which
> > is now past end-of-life. I think you should remove it again, and
> > instead, do:
> > 
> > sudo apt install python3
> 
> Turns out python3 *was* installed so I had to tell it to behave:
> 
> sudo apt install python-is-python3

Not heard of that before. I presume that means running the 'python'
command actually runs 'python3'?

> I knew there were good reasons I turned down Python as a language to
> learn.
> 
> However, python setup.py still complains that there is no module
> named
> 'setuptools'.

You need to instal setuptools. sudo apt install setuptools should do
it.

> I'm stopping at this point. Python is clearly too badly broken to be
> worth pursuing.

Not broken, just lack of familiarity on your part!

> > It is really the Python community's fault when they decided to
> > break backwards-compatibility. 
> 
> That, and any language whose reserved words begin with @@__ and end
> with
> __@@ is brain-dead from the start.

I've never seen any reserved words that start and end like that in
python. Please elaborate.

Regards,
Tony.
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