Development Best Practices

• Commit Best Practices
  • Pre-commit hooks
  • How to split a change into commits
    • Why do we need to split changes into commits
    • Examples
      • Cosmetic changes
      • Refactoring
      • Mixing unrelated changes
  • How to write a commit message
    • Why do we need commit messages
    • Anatomy of a good commit message
      • Subject
      • Body
      • Footer
    • Examples
      • Bad commit message
      • Good commit message
        • Commit b531290c04c4
        • Commit 82d92836d4ff
        • Commit f66ac0be1c19
  • Conclusion
• 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