Python

5 October 2022 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 26 March 2026

Python is a widely used general-purpose scripting language.

Table of Contents:

1. Resources
2. On Embedded Artistry

Resources

1. Learning Python
2. Advanced
3. Style Guides
4. Quality Enforcement

Learning Python

• The Official Python 3 Tutorial
• Dive Into Python – for experienced devs learning Python
• Python Practice Problems for Beginner Coders – Berkeley I School Online
• Python Cheat Sheets is a great summary resource. Start with the basics.
• James Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Programming (Udemy Course)

Advanced

• Elecia White’s Presentation on Profiling and Optimizing Python code

Style Guides

• PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code
• Google Python Style Guide
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python: Code Style

Quality Enforcement

• Linters are tools for finding potential bugs and style problems in Python source code. They find problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages like C and C++.
  • Ruff is a Python linter and code formatter that people prefer for its speed of execution. This is currently our choice of tool.
    • Goodbye to Flake8 and PyLint: faster linting with Ruff
  • Pylint is a tool for finding bugs and style problems in Python source code. It finds problems that are typically caught by a compiler for less dynamic languages like C and C++.
    • Google’s pylintrc file
    • Why Pylint is both useful and unusable, and how you can use it
  • Flake8 is another popular linter and formatter that supports plugins to add additional checks.
• Black is a Python formatter
• Type Checking
  • Mypy is a static type checker for Python that aims to add compile-time type checking with no runtime overhead.

On Embedded Artistry

• Replacing find Shell Commands with Python
• Python: Remember to use the right [] () {}

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