[Tutor] Python best practices

[Wayne Werner]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Stefan Lesicnik <stefan at lsd.co.za> wrote:

> hihi!  (two in 1 day!)
>
> Is there a document, pep, wiki etc that defines best practice for python
> code?  (maybe its more generic).
>
>
 This one is fairly comprehensive:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

HTH,
Wayne

I keep stumbling on things I think, it would be nice if someone mentioned
> this. Some things ive seen
>
> - keep you try blocks as small as possible, so you can isolate the error
> - functions should return one value (im not 100% of this one)
> - declare variable names in a certain way (place?)
> - use the if __name__ == '__main__': main() convention
>
> im sure there are tons more, that i only figure out after stumbling through
> them. does anyone know if its written down, or stumbling is just part of the
> learning process?
>
> stefan
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