Python Onboarding Guide

Mini blog to myself about the technical steps to get a python development environment setup.

Below are sections with links to sub-blogs where I am collecting and curating content.

Python Environment

• PyEnv

Git

• GPG Git Commit Signing & Conditional Config
• precommit

Python Dependency Management

• Astral uv
• pip and piptools

Python Tooling

• Dockerfiles and Containerisation
• pytest and also testcontainers
• Typechecking with mypy
• Documentation Generation mkdocs
• AWS CDK

Notebooks / Google Colab

• Current best practices are reflected in https://github.com/neozenith/notebook-network-maximum-parallelism
• For some tricks to integrate Google Colab with the rest of GSuite see this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El14YhjPRhQ&t=57s

Meta / Misc

• Markdown and Github Flavored Markdown tricks for micro-blogging
• PEM Files