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Python vs JavaScript for a 40 year old changing careers, which one first

I spent last Saturday at a local coding meetup in Austin and everyone there said to start with Python, but then this one guy showed me his React project and it looked way cooler. I have zero coding experience, just did roofing math my whole life. I know the basics of logic from estimating bids, but I'm not sure if that counts. Is it better to learn the one that gets you a job faster, or the one that's easier to wrap your head around? Has anyone else switched careers later and regretted picking one over the other?

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hill.barbara•1d ago

I finally got Python to read my messy CSV file

I spent a whole afternoon fighting with a CSV export from a client's old system, kept getting errors because of stray quotes and commas inside the data. Then I found the csv module's quotechar parameter and set it to the right character, and it just worked on the first try. The fix was literally one line of code, but I'd been avoiding reading the docs for weeks. Has anyone else had a stubborn file format that turned out to have a simple built-in solution?

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