Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python

You're reading from   Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python Build powerful Python applications

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283695
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Daniel Arbuckle Daniel Arbuckle
Author Profile Icon Daniel Arbuckle
Daniel Arbuckle
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Python Primer 2. Setting Up FREE CHAPTER 3. Making a Package 4. Basic Best Practices 5. Making a Command-Line Utility 6. Parallel Processing 7. Coroutines and Asynchronous I/O 8. Metaprogramming 9. Unit Testing 10. Reactive Programming 11. Microservices 12. Extension Modules and Compiled Code

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 into hyperlinked HTML documentation for viewing in a web browser. You'll also see one more cool advantage we...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image