Tools to use for easing development and maintaining consistency. There are links to readings as well.

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These tools can be used along with your development environment and IDE so that you can follow coding conventions better.

Version Management

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These can be used with dependency Management

• pyenv with venv support.
  • virtualenv

Dependency Management:

• poetry
  • pipenv can be used as well.

Project Templates:

• cookiecutter

Linters:

• flake8 with plugins
  • Alternative: pylint
  • Alternative: ruff
• bandit to find common security issues. This can be used with flake8 as a plugin

Formatters:

• black
  • Alternative: autopep8
  • Alternative: yapf
• isort for sorting only imports in codes. This is OPTIONAL.
  • Alternative: reorder-python-imports another way of sorting imports.

Type Inference

• mypy optional static type coding with python through annotations. from Dropbox but most famous in community.
  • Alternative: pyright from Microsoft. Usually available in VSCode
  • Alternative: pyre from Facebook.
  • Alternative: pytype from Google.

Testing:

• pytest with plugins
  • Alternative: Inbuilt unittest
• hypothesis and mock for data generation and mocking in tests.
• tox for test automation in different python version
  • Alternative: nox is tox with python API i.e. py file settings so can be used if you need any dynamism.

Other tools:

• faker for fake data generation.
• factory_boy for fixture generation.
• coverage for checking code coverage of tests.
• interrogate for docstring coverage check.

Readings and References:

• Design Patterns
• Official Documentation
• Python Code Quality for the tools like flake8, pylint, bandit etc along with others.
• Python Packages