Which PEPs are a must to read? : Python

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2021-07-11 04:00:05

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Asking the experts here about their views on PEPs. Which PEPs do you recommend reading for anyone who is writing code in python and wants to get better at it.

The ones I seem to end up directing colleagues to read most often are PEP 513 (the one introducing the manylinux1 build tag - which also explains as background reading what the pitfalls of binary compatibility are on Linux), and PEP 3333 (the one describing WSGI, which helps understand how (synchronous) web apps and web servers integrate).

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