30 Python Best Practices, Tips, And Tricks
Improve your Python knowledge and skills
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9 min readJun 17, 2021
Here are 30 Python best practices, tips, and tricks. I’m sure they’ll help you procrastinate your actual work and still learn something useful in the process.
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1. Use Python 3
In case you missed it: Python 2 is officially not supported as of January 1, 2020. This guide has a bunch of examples that only work in Python 3. If you’re still on Python 2.7, upgrade now.
If you’re on MacOS, you can use Homebrew to painlessly upgrade Python.
2. Check for a minimum required Python version
You can check for the Python version in your code, to make sure your users are not running your script with an incompatible version. Use this simple check:
