The Python Workshop - Second Edition

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Software Development

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to troubleshoot issues in Python applications, explain why testing in software development is important, write test scenarios in Python to validate code, create a Python package that can be published to the Python Package Index (PyPI), write and publish documentation on the web, and create a Git repository and manage your source code versions.

Introduction

Software development goes beyond writing code. In Chapter 7, Becoming Pythonic, you were introduced to the idea of being Pythonic. When we write software as professionals, we expect the code to be up to a certain standard and to be able to manage and distribute that code in a way that can be easily consumed by other ...