At first read this is a pretty reasonable doc for some things to consider. I also recommend watching the linked "PEP8" YouTube presentation from PyCON: https:/

At first read this is a pretty reasonable doc for some things to consider. I also recommend watching the linked "PEP8" YouTube presentation from PyCON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M From past projects, I got way more adherance-to-the-letter type patches versus "make this code pythonic and elegant" type patches, and the latter IMHO is more of the point of where things should go. It's a bit of a long/slow talk, so if you find yourself getting bored, switch it up to 2x speed on youtube and I think many of you will like it. My personal PEP8 ignore list was: -pep8 -r --ignore=E501,E221,W291,W391,E302,E251,E203,W293,E231,E303,E201,E225,E261,E241 lib/ bin/ Which is quite a lot of it :) Codebases are easier to understand when everybody's consistent within the codebase, but things need to be idiomatic well beyond PEP8 and it's easy to have a forrest vs trees scenario.