Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Internal standards

Any given development effort, team, or even company may have specific standards and expectations around how code is written or structured. There may also be functional standards as well, things such as policies that define what types of external systems will be used to provide various functionality that systems consume, which RDBMS engines are supported, what web servers will be used, and so on. For the purposes of this book, the functional standards will be determined during development, but some code structure and format standards will be defined here and now. As a starting point, the PEP-8 code layout, comments, and naming convention standards will apply. Over and above that, there are some code organization and class ...