Python Packages Development and Maintenance

This section describes how the Python packages in the tools repo are developed. There are also notes here on package maintenance topics such as:

• Guidelines and Best Practices for Writing Library Code

• Importing Files from Another Mercurial Repo to form the basis of a new package.

Contents:

• Guidelines and Best Practices for Writing Library Code
  • Python 3
  • Standard Copyright Header Block
  • Imports
  • Public and Private Objects
  • Automatic Module Documentation Generation
  • Return SimpleNamespace from Functions
  • Module-Specific Best Practices
• Mercurial Named Branches
• Importing Files from Another Mercurial Repo