Clean Code in Python

The role of code formatting in clean code

Is clean code about formatting and structuring the code, according to some standards (for example, PEP-8, or a custom standard defined by the project guidelines)? The short answer is no.

Clean code is something else that goes way beyond coding standards, formatting, linting tools, and other checks regarding the layout of the code. Clean code is about achieving quality software and building a system that is robust, maintainable, and avoiding technical debt. A piece of code or an entire software component could be 100% with PEP-8 (or any other guideline), and still not satisfy these requirements.

However, not paying attention to the structure of the code has some perils. For this reason, we will first ...