Development Best Practices

• Python best practices
  • Import
    • Avoid from module_foo import symbol_bar
      • Rationale
      • Example
      • References
  • Naming
    • Predicate functions
      • Rationale
      • Example
  • Patterns and idioms
    • Don’t write code vulnerable to “Time of check to time of use”
      • Rationale
      • Examples
      • References
    • Minimize the amount of code in a try block
      • Rationale
    • Don’t use hasattr in Python 2
      • Rationale
      • Examples
      • References