Python coding standards

Coding standards serve as guidelines to write good quality code. Complying with these standards can have a significant impact on code readability, and in general on the life of the code.

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PEP 8 Style Guide for Python Code

The PEP 8 convention provides a style guide for writing Python code. If you are working on a project that follows its own set of coding conventions, rather than enforcing the PEP 8 standards, you should adhere to the project-specific conventions. What matters the most is consistency. For any new project, you are strongly recommended to use the PEP 8 style guide. In this section, we will cover a bare minimum set of guidelines that you should be aware of. For a comprehensive overview, check out https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008.

The following table lists some of the important guidelines documented in PEP 8 to write Python code:

PEP 8 Style Guide For Python Code	Details
Use four spaces per indentation level	This can be set as a preference...