Coding Standards

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/356161/python-coding-standards-best-practices/684233#684233

I stick to PEP-8 very closely.

There are three specific things that I can't be bothered to change to PEP-8.

• Avoid extraneous whitespace immediately inside parentheses, brackets or braces.

  Suggested: spam(ham[1], {eggs: 2})

  I do this anyway: spam( ham[ 1 ], { eggs: 2 } )

  Why? 30+ years of ingrained habit is snuggling ()'s up against function names or (in C) statements keywords. Starting with Fortran IV in the 70's.

• Use spaces around arithmetic operators:

  Suggested: x = x * 2 - 1

  I do this anyway: x= x * 2 - 1

  Why? Gries' The Science of Programming suggested this as a way to emphasize the connection between assignment and the variable who's state is being changed.

  It doesn't work well for multiple assignment or augmented assignment, for that I use lots of spaces.

• For function names, method names and instance variable names

  Suggested: lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.

  I do this anyway: camelCase

  Why? 20+ years of ingrained habit of camelCase, starting with Pascal in the 80's.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/