python-bootcamp

1400h Administrative issues, CA HR laws, 40 hour per week requirement, they'd like a slower pace to get to less than 40 hours a week of combined research + mandatory assignment time.

1445h Commit review

Sloetjes received some warnings in her terminal for both hers and Karens
Karen can't use git still

1450h Troubleshoot that

Karen sees an error message saying that git isn't in the PATH of the container.
cd /; find . -name *git*
find / -name git, both are equivalent but the former is best practice for some reason I don't remember
apt list --installed
dpkg -l
=> revise hypothesis that git isn't in the PATH, conclude that git isn't even installed
apt is separate from dpkg because of 1) security and 2) apt supports other package formats
install git via ansible

1520h You have to enable clipboard sharing on a MacOS Zoom host

1530h There doesn't seem to be an easy way to query the apt database for a search term in the descriptions of the installed packages.

TODO: @sloetjes please update these with the mac versions

1545h Went over multiple selection in VSC:

alt+shift+right arrow = smart selection expand
ctrl+d = add additional occurances of the selected text, enable multi-cursor mode
shift+esc = cancel multiple cursor mode
ctrl+shift+k = delete current line

1600h Sloetjes reports that doing pip install -r requirements.txt gave an unrelated error

1610h apt search setuptools

TASK [Install Python requirements] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) on c8763b6a8098's Python /usr/bin/python3. Please read the module documentation and install it in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"}

Explained that debian uses python to mean python3, but that's not guaranteed for older systems where it means python2, so always specify the python major version when referring to packages.
Playbooks contain plays, which contain tasks
yaml sequences = python arrays, mappings = python dicts
follow the dashes up and down to see which other elements are part of your sequence/array
sequences end when you go draw a line down the list of dashes and it hits something
Used apt show to search for setuptools
Noted that Ansible really had two errors, one where it said no module named pkg_resources, another one saying it couldn't import setuptools
Used apt-cache showpkg to verify that pkg-resources was in the setuptools package
Updated playbook to install those packages
amd64 = intel 64 bit processors in a Linux context
Packages can also be investigated on the Ubuntu website: https://packages.ubuntu.com/