Learning Python — Coding Style
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1 min readMar 19, 2011
- Use 4-space indentation, no tabs
- Wrap lines so that they don’t exceed 79 characters
- Use blank lines to separate functions and classes, and larger blocks of code inside functions
- When possible, put comments on a line of their own
- Use docstrings
- Use spaces around operators and after commas
- Name your classes and functions consistently; the convention is to use CamelCase for classes and lower_case_with_underscores for functions and methods
- Always use self as the name for the first method argument
- Don’t use fancy encodings if your code is meant to be used in international environments
- Naming conventions:
- Variables / functions — use_lower_case_separated_by_underscore
- Class names — UseCamelCase
- Error classes end in Error, i.e. MyError
