Daniel Arbuckle's Mastering Python

Basic Best Practices

In the previous chapter, we saw how to put together a Python package of code and data. In this chapter, we're going to look at some rather simple things we can do that will make our lives as Python programmers simpler overall. We'll switch gears and look at version control, which will help us to collaborate with other programmers and serve as an undo buffer for the whole lifetime of a project. We're going to look at Python's built-in virtual environment tool, venv, which allows us to keep our programs and dependencies separate from each other and the software installed on our overall system.

You'll learn how to structure our docstrings for maximum utility, how to add Rich Text formatting to them, and how to export them ...