Developer Tools

If a Python algorithms library has to run in production, Sorted Containers gives you sorted lists, dicts, and sets. To learn, read The Algorithms - Python.

Exploring code is easier in IPython than in the default Python interactive interpreter. Jupyter Notebook mixes code with notes and plots.

Lint and format with Ruff. It doesn't check types, so add a type checker, and let pre-commit run each Python code analysis tool on every commit.

pytest runs your unittest suites unchanged, so switching Python testing frameworks costs no rewrite. Hypothesis and Playwright tests run inside it too.

Stepping through code in ipdb gets you pdb with IPython's tab completion. Python debugging tools cover slow code too: py-spy profiles a running Python program.

Tasks like running your tests go in pyproject.toml for Poe the Poet to run. C and C++ projects that replace Make with a Python build tool pick SCons.

Write only docstrings, and pdoc is all the Python documentation generator you need. Write guides too, and build the site with Sphinx or Material for MkDocs.