Featured resource
pluralsight tech forecast
2025 Tech Forecast

Which technologies will dominate in 2025? And what skills do you need to keep up?

Check it out
Hamburger Icon
  • Course
    • Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries.
    • Core Tech

Python Best Practices for Code Quality

This is a replacement for the aging course, Python Developers Toolkit, covering only the topics around Pylint and Documentation. These are obviously core skills for any python developer, but for a beginner, they might come too early.

Reindert-Jan Ekker - Pluralsight course - Python Best Practices for Code Quality
by Reindert-Jan Ekker

What you'll learn

In need of core skills for any level python development? In this course, Python Best Practices for Code Quality, you will learn a number of best practices that will help you improve the quality of your Python code. First, you will discover the guidelines for formatting code called Pep8. Next, you will create beautiful and publishable documentation with Python docstrings and a tool called Sphinx. Finally. you will explore how to improve maintainability and prevent errors by adding type hints to your code. By the end of this course, you will be able to write clearer, more readable and more maintainable code with better documentation.

Table of contents

About the author

Reindert-Jan Ekker - Pluralsight course - Python Best Practices for Code Quality
Reindert-Jan Ekker

After years of working in software development, Reindert-Jan Ekker switched to teaching programmers in 2010 and never looked back. He authors Pluralsight courses and teaches classes about Python, data science, devops (among others). Even though he squeezes some development jobs in here and there, teaching is his real passion and he is looking forward to share this passion with you.

More Courses by Reindert-Jan