Things I Wish I Knew as a New Python User

• awesome-python

  85 205,414 7.0 Python

  An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Beyond stdlib there's a whole universe of packages. Python has one of the most vibrant and awesome ecosystems around. This awesome list organizes a bunch of those libraries into categories for you, and there are many more out there for you to find on PyPI. You can do it with pip!

• Poetry

  377 29,483 9.7 Python

  Python packaging and dependency management made easy

  

Python uses "virtual environments" to isolate dependencies. You can use anything you want, and I like Poetry a lot, but on Linux I generally start a new project with a simple set of commands:

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• gitignore

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  A collection of useful .gitignore templates

  

There is a repo of starter .gitignore files maintained by GitHub including one for python. It already includes your venv file. Copy it into every project. Never look back.

• pdoc

  10 1,813 8.2 Python

  API Documentation for Python Projects

  

PEP 257 and a few others define "docstrings". Leverage them to make full use of autodoc tools. pdoc is a pretty fun tool that "just works". Build good habits from the start. Projects that have great documentation are just more attractive to me. If I come across a project that seems to do what I need, but has crappy documentation, I keep looking.

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