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Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283695
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Python Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up 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

Adding modules to the package

Now, let's take look at how to add actual code to the package and look out for a couple of pitfalls to avoid.

Python modules have the same name as objects that they have as filenames, except without the .py suffix. This means that the filenames need to be valid Python variable names and also that they should use letters and symbols that are reliably available across different operating systems. The following screenshot showns an example for this:

So, module names should not start with a number because Python variables are not allowed to start with numbers. Also, it should not use capital letters because some common operating system don't differentiate between filenames containing capital letters and filenames that are all lowercase. As long as we stay within Python variable name guidelines and remember to use a .py suffix, we can name...

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