Python Best Practices

Python conventions and best practices are the commonly accepted guidelines, idioms, and patterns that help you write Python code that’s clear, consistent, and maintainable. Learn established approaches to code readability, Pythonic idioms, dependency and project management, testing, type hinting, error handling, resource management, logging, concurrency, refactoring, documentation, distribution, and more.

Mastering Python best practices and conventions is a critical skill in today’s software development landscape. Especially as AI coding tools become increasingly capable of generating code, but might not follow best practices when doing so.

Each guide stands on its own and provides focused examples, practical comparisons, and reusable patterns that you can apply right away to write more maintainable and consistent Python code.

  • Classes Guidelines and best practices for using Python classes as an expert in OOP.
  • Code Testing Guidelines and best practices for putting together a robust and flexible test suite for your Python code.