research-software-practices

Python

Python code should, as a minimum, adhere to the PEP8 Python coding standard. We also encourage compliance with modern style recommendations, such as type annotations in PEP484.

• As a minimum we will support the last 42 months of Python releases. This has been adopted by the wider scientific Python community and codified in Numpy Enhancement Proposal 29. If researchers require specific support for older versions of Python this can be offered.
• We have separate web pages to document our Python recommendations and we maintain an ARC-recommended cookiecutter template, which might be a helpful starting point.

We maintain a list of recommended Python tools.

Packaging and Releasing

For more general information on releasing, see the release management guide.

Python code should be released as “wheels” using build, and, ideally, be published through the Python Package Index or conda-forge.

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