colorama allows you to print text in color on the terminal. It’s - Cross platform (Windows, *nix) - Works with Python 3.x - Is an active open source project. I use colorama while debugging. Currently working on a software that produces logs sized 1–2GBs per day, tail -f coupled with colorama allows for quick visual identification of messages as thosands of lines scroll by. Here is simple code snippet to get you started.

When you want to use Django models for persistence in a standalone script. Note one can also use management commands.

Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently…

Go the base location of your source code and activate your virtualenv if any. $ pip install flake8 # install flake8 If you are using git, create a pre-commit hook file $ vim .git/hooks/pre-commit In the file add the below two lines #!/bin/sh flake8 . Now as you try to commit your code it will show you all coding style issues. You will only be able to commit until code is pep8 compliant.