This article makes some very good points about moving on from old constructs in Python.
I’m guilty of using some of the older methods including os for file manipulation instead of pathlib. Mostly this is because it’s how I learned to do it but it’s time to stop now. I’m using pathlib from now on.
I’m a little better about some of the other points mentioned. I’ve used dataclasses in a few different things and they work well. I could probably use the logging more and I do sometimes just put in a quick print statement to see some values but the proper logging method is just better and can be left in to inform later debugging.
I fully agree with using f-strings in general. I’m trying to do this everywhere it makes sense and it really is a better way to go for 99% of my use cases.
The moral of the post is that Python changes and it’s good to keep up with the changes that make your programming easier.