Notes from fireside chat with Łukasz Langa and Dustin Ingram from PyCascades 2021

Notes from the PyCascades 2021 talk - Fireside chat with Łukasz Langa and Dustin Ingram about their favorite tools, packages, and workflows for advanced Python development (Video should be available on YouTube within a week of post date).

pip-tools

• pip-tools on GitHub
• pip install pip-tools; pip-compile
• a lock file for python package versions

Visual Studio Code

• editor.formatOnSave to automatically run file formattign on save
• Witch Hazel theme by Stargirl

Debuggers

• pdb should be taught early
• Nina’s PyCon 2020 talk on debugging on YouTube
• debugpy on GitHub
• See also at PyCascades 2021 Let’s Rethink Debugging by laike9m

PyPI

• See an issue with package name squatting? Email admin at pypi.org, or file an issue on the repo.

Static Typing

• Dustin Ingram - Static Typing in Python - talk writeup

Formatters

• Black
• OH: “back in spaaaaace” github.com/nasa/fprime/blob/devel/.pre-commit-config.yaml (uses https://pre-commit.com/)

CLI Helpers

• rich on GitHub
  • python -m rich.progress and python -m rich.logging
• tqdm on GitHub

Testing helpers

• wily on pypi
• flake8-bugbear on pypi