Resources/pointers for writing maintable, testable Python

[Jacob Scott]

Ah, what I should have done is note that I am writing Python 2.7 (and this
is at work, with all that entails...), but am happy to take advice that
applies only to Python 3 (even 3.5 or 3.6.0a1!) and work backwards to apply
it to Python 2.7.

I think I would be (perhaps pleasantly) surprised if there was a wide gulf
between Python 2.7 and Python 3 *in terms of advice/resources applicable to
my original question*. Based on my (admittedly shallow) understanding of
overall Python 2.7/3 differences, the biggest changes (from e.g.
http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_python_2_3_key_diff.html) tend to
be a bit lower level (utf-8 str) than what I'm focused on (maintainable and
testable classes, functions, modules, etc).

Thanks for the pointer to Code Like A Pythonista and the feedback on 2.7 vs
3!

Jacob

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:

> Jacob Scott <jacob.scott at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Today, I'm happily writing primarily Python (unfortunately, 2.7 -- but
> I'm
> > not sure it makes that much of a difference)
>
> Python 2.7 is still viable, but is certainly a dead end. The difference
> increases month by month, and the advantage is only going to increase to
> Python 3.
>
> Any new code base should not be written in Python 2. Any libraries you
> need which don't work yet on Python 3 should be seriously reconsidered.
>
> > I'd appreciate any pointers to resources I might have missed, general
> > thoughts on the topic, etc.
>
> Code Like A Pythonista was written in the Python 2 era
> <http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html>
> but is still excellent advice today.
>
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