Resources for the course

VS Code

• MacOS keyboard shortcuts
• Linux keyboard shortcuts
• Windows keyboard shortcuts

Pylint

• Optional Pylint checkers

Flake8 plugins

• Awesome Flake8 Extensions - curated list of Flake8 plugins
• flake8-bugbear - tries to find bugs and design problems in your programs
• flake8-builtins - checks that you don't use Python builtins as variables or parameters
• flake8-comprehensions - helps you write better list/set/dict comprehensions
• flake8-docstrings - adds documentation checks provided by PEP 257
• flake8-eradicate - finds commented out dead code
• flake8-isort - checks if imports are correctly ordered (with isort plugin)
• flake8-broken-line - complains when you incorrectly use backslashes
• flake8-rst-docstrings - validate Python docstrings as reStructuredText (RST) - useful with Sphinx
• darglint - check that the docstring matches the function's definition
• flake8-mutable - checks that you don't use mutable default arguments

IPython

• "Wait, IPython can do that?!" - presentation of IPython features

Pytest plugins

• pytest-xdist - run tests in parallel
• pytest-cov - generate coverage reports
• pytest-clarity - improve the readability of pytest output
• pytest-instafail - instantly show failures and errors
• pytest-sugar - prettify the output from pytest
• pytest-benchmark - benchmark your tests
• pytest-socket - disable network calls in your tests
• pytest-emoji - display emojis in your test results