6. Beautiful Python

Writing pythonic code.

Community Links

• Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015

  • Notes:

  • variable names should describe the variable (type, const, let)

  • Pythonic transformation of Java Code

    • try..finally becoming --- with .... : ...

    • iteration becoming -- loop with conversion to sequence (__len__(self) , __get__item(self, i))

• A ton of algorithms implemented in python: https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python

• A project with more great projects : https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

• A repo I made explaining the one time pad in a few languages: https://github.com/descent098/simple-otp

• A program to download YouTube videos: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

• A simple OO steam api: https://github.com/smiley/steamapi

• Progress bars for downloads: https://github.com/bharat-nair/pyprogress

• A repo with some python program structure templates: https://github.com/canadian-coding/python-package-template

• Get a Bing wallpaper: https://github.com/utkarsh13/bing-wallpaper-windows

Programming in General

• Programming Pearls (PDF) by Jon Bentley

Inspiration Live Sessions

• Code MakeOver!