Using best practices for coding in your project

In this section, we'll switch to another, although adjacent, topic—best practices for maintaining good quality code. Here, we will define "good" in a broad way—as dry, concise, expressive, easy to read, change, and build upon. To illustrate this topic, we will review the wikiwwii package we built in Chapter 15, Packaging and Testing with Poetry and PyTest.

All the changes we make to the package throughout this chapter are stored on the best-practices branch in this book's GitHub repository.

Code formatting with black

First of all, let's talk about formatting. It may sound like a minor issue—and it generally is—but formatting...