Things are a little crazy right now, and I don't have the spare time to dig into these articles the way I would like, so I'm just going to drop them in here before I lose them!
I really haven't started my journey into Python practical machine learning yet, but this may be a useful tool to get that started: https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic
I can't find the original article that turned me onto this (thank you whoever you are!!) but Poetry promises to make packaging and dependency management much more, um, manageable for Python projects: https://python-poetry.org/