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This page is a brain-dump of the tools & libraries I reach for in python in various situations. It’s a living document; I intend to update it as my practices drift. Perhaps you’ll find something you find interesting here!

See also: my reference python repo.

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Python tooling:

• mypy: type checker
• pylint: linter
• bellybutton: linter that lets you write custom rules
• jupyter notebook: good for quick experimentation
• black: formatter
• isort: sort imports
• docformatter: formats docstrings
• pyenv: manages switches between different versions of the python interpretter
• tox: test code against different python versions
• pythex: online regex sandbox

Python libraries:

• argparse: for building CLI tools which take arguments
• click: another way of building CLI tools which take arguments
• sqlalchemy: for a programmatic interface to a SQL database
• fastapi: for a server
• pydantic: for validating data to server endpoints
• pytest: for testing
• beautifulsoup: for webscraping
• rich: for pretty-printing to the terminal
• hypothesis: for property-based testing
• sphinx: for documentation generation
• altair: for visualization
• tqdm: for progress bars
• sortedcontainers: for performant sorted containers
• numpy: for matrix / vector manipulations

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