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📣 mattcristal

How to become a better Python developer?


How to become a better Python developer?


  👤 Jeff_Brown Accepted Answer ✓
Pydoc, pytest and mypy are simple, powerful, underused tools.

@dataclass can make a lot of code cleaner than it would be otherwise.

Sum types, only available as of 3.10, make a lot of things easily expressible now that were extremely awkward previously.

Also, learn Haskell. It forces you to learn to keep most of your code pure, limiting IO to a thin top level layer, which makes testing and hence correctness a lot easier.


👤 richardjam73
Read the Python Enhancement Proposals PEP's https://peps.python.org/