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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

You're reading from   Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm Build applications like a pro with the ultimate python development tool

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837632350
Length 652 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
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Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics of PyCharm
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to PyCharm – the Most Popular IDE for Python FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring PyCharm 4. Part 2: Improving Your Productivity
5. Chapter 3: Customizing Interpreters and Virtual Environments 6. Chapter 4: Editing and Formatting with Ease in PyCharm 7. Chapter 5: Version Control with Git in PyCharm 8. Chapter 6: Seamless Testing, Debugging, and Profiling 9. Part 3: Web Development in PyCharm
10. Chapter 7: Web Development with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS 11. Chapter 8: Building a Dynamic Web Application with Flask 12. Chapter 9: Creating a RESTful API with FastAPI 13. Chapter 10: More Full Stack Frameworks – Django and Pyramid 14. Chapter 11: Understanding Database Management in PyCharm 15. Part 4: Data Science with PyCharm
16. Chapter 12: Turning On Scientific Mode 17. Chapter 13: Dynamic Data Viewing with SciView and Jupyter 18. Chapter 14: Building a Data Pipeline in PyCharm 19. Part 5: Plugins and Conclusion
20. Chapter 15: More Possibilities with Plugins 21. Chapter 16: Your Next Steps with PyCharm 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Documentation

No programmer can doubt the importance of documentation in software engineering and development. That said, the process of creating documentation for a program can be quite tedious. Furthermore, the end result might not even be effective if the person doing the documentation was not following standard practices.

Keeping that in mind, PyCharm looks to streamline this process of documentation and make it as straightforward and seamless as possible. Regarding documentation, there are two components we will consider for this process: viewing and creating documentation. We will learn that PyCharm offers great support for both processes.

Working with docstrings

Documentation in Python is known as docstrings, defined as a string literal that is placed before any of the statements in a module, function, class, or method in Python. You can look at examples of Python docstrings by going into the source code of the various built-in Python functions. It is also recommended...

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