Code Structure

Python Style Guide

While Python is very flexible in terms of program and code structure, there are common practices related to structure or format of statements that should be followed, no matter the source language.

Boolean Literals

Typecasting

Splitting a String

Opening a File

Do not combine an input function as the argument to the open() function:

inFile = open(input("Enter a filename: "))

Instead, this should be split into two separate instructions

filename = input("Enter a filename: ")
inFile = open(filename)

Storage Classes

Private versus Public

Python Style Guide