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Indents matter

Everyone on the team should ahve the same indent policies in their IDE

Menzies: 2 spaces, "tab" injects 2 spaces.
Mathew: 2 spaces, "tab" injects 2 spaces.

Style matters

Everyone of the same team should use the same coding conventions:

Menzies: use i for self
Everyone else in the whole work: use self for self

Don't matter what, but all members of the team should use the same style guidelines

e.g. Style guide: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html

IDEs

Pycharm
- Extremely user friendly for beginners and experts
- Professional edition free with student mail id.
- Integration with PEP8 and standard style checkers
- Compatability with pip and anaconda package managers
- More here
Eclipse with PyDev
- Open source
- Aids developers familiar with the eclipse ecosystem
- PEP8 style checker incorporated by default
Notepad ++
- For windows users
- Plugin
- Lightweight
- Not recommended for beginners
Emacs or Vim
- Classical text editors
- Plugins available for python formatting
  - Emacs
  - Vim
- Useful for working on remote file system
Ipython
- Interactive python by Junyper.
- Supports documentation as well as coding.
- Can be made Cloud based
- Shareable
- Runs on your browser
Cloud 9
- Cloud based programming
- Integration with git
- Package manager is simple and inbuilt.
- Free version has a decent amount of RAM for smaller projects.
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