Knowledge Base

This guide provides ideals for production-grade Python code, code that humans are likely to read, code that will likely be edited and/or re-executed atleast once, and code that I will review in detail. Code whose correctness, reproducibility, and reliability matter should follow these guidelines. This guide partly exists because Python is so flexible. There are enough ways of using Python to warrant a clean separation between “scripts that will be executed once, never reviewed by another person, or used again” from “services or ‘important’ tasks whose correctness matters and for which I might be called in to debug at midnight.” ...