Python¶

Programming language.

Resources¶

Naming conventions and style guide¶

Defined in PEP 8¹

Things I often forget:

Variable names: snake_case
- some_random_variable = "test string"
Class names: PascalCase
- class SomeClass():
- This applies to models in Django as well, since they're really just classes anyway².

Virtual environments¶

Create a new virtual environment named .env in the current directory. Do this from a terminal in VSCode and it'll ask if you want to select it for the current workspace, which is helpful for many things. More info: Using Python Environments in Visual Studio Code

python -m venv .env

Decorators¶

Syntactic sugar around functions that return functions. Makes it nice to add functionality to existing functions in an efficient and readable way. More information: https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-decorator