python-development.md

Key:

• 📃 Article
• 📘 Book
• 📁 Repo / set of articles
• 🕸 Website / blog
• 📽 Video(s)
• 🎙 Podcast

Efficient and idiomatic code

• 📃 Beautiful Idiomatic Python

Testing

• 📘 Python Testing with Pytest
• 📘 The Art of Unit Testing: a book on testing practices with examples in JavaScript, but useful info for a developer regardless of language.
• Testing in Python libraries:
  • Pandas
  • Matplotlib

Packaging

• 📽/🕸/📁: The Sheer Joy of Packaging (with video and Github repo): tutorial on Python packaging, delivered at SciPy 2018.
• 🕸 Python Packaging User Guide: 'official' guide on Python packaging from the Python Packaging Authority (PyPA). A fairly comprehensive reference.
• 📃 Python project maturity checklist: a checklist that covers the steps of a Python project in neat steps, covering aspects of project development from the basics all the way to automated testing and continuous integration.
• 📁 Making a Python Package (with repo): eight-part tutorial on how to release a Python package, covering aspects such as testing, automated testing and data files.
• 📃 Clarifying PEP 518 (a.k.a. pyproject.toml): pyproject.toml is a future enhancement for Python packaging (provisionally accepted enhancement to this date). This post is useful in showing how it compares to the existing standards for Python packaging.

Marketing

• 📃 OpenSourceGuides | Finding users: nice examples on how to promote your project and do outreach (e.g. getting feedback on project).
• 📃 How we got our 2-year-old repo trending on GitHub in just 48 hours: creator of flask-base shares tips on "how to get the product out there"