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Kozyarchuk picture Kozyarchuk · Dec 10, 2008 · Viewed 111.8k times · Source

In python do you generally use PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code as your coding standards/guidelines? Are there any other formalized standards that you prefer?

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bhadra picture bhadra · Dec 10, 2008

"In python do you generally use PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code as your coding standards/guidelines? Are there any other formalized standards that you prefer?"

As mentioned by you follow PEP 8 for the main text, and PEP 257 for docstring conventions

Along with Python Style Guides, I suggest that you refer the following:

  1. Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
  2. Common mistakes and Warts
  3. How not to write Python code
  4. Python gotcha

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