Working with coding standards

Coding standards are a set of guidelines that help ensure that code is readable, maintainable, and consistent across a team or organization. By adhering to coding standards, analytics engineers can create more efficient, scalable, and reliable code, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the code and faster development times.

Note

This chapter features code snippets designed to showcase best practices. However, executing these snippets may need extra setup, not covered in this book. Readers should view these snippets as illustrative examples and adapt the underlying best practices to their unique scenarios.

Have a look at the following Python function definition:

def add_numbers(a,b) :
c = a+b;return c

Here is the same code but in a different formatting:

def add_numbers(a, b):
    c = a + b
    return c

What do you notice about the format of the code and how it is written? You probably...