Guidelines for writing good code

Writing good code is not as easy as it seems. As we have already said, good code exposes a long list of qualities that are difficult to combine. Writing good code is, to some extent, an art. Regardless of where on the path you will be happy to settle, there is something that you can embrace that will make your code instantly better: PEP 8.

A Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) is a document that describes a newly proposed Python feature. PEPs are also used to document processes around Python language development and to provide guidelines and information more generally. You can find an index of all PEPs at https://www.python.org/dev/peps.

PEP 8 is perhaps the most famous of all PEPs. It lays out a simple but effective set of guidelines to define Python aesthetics so that we write beautiful Python code. If you take just one suggestion out of this chapter, please let it be this: use PEP 8. Embrace it. You will thank us later.

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