Chapter 2. Best Practices in Interactive Computing

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Choosing (or not) between Python 2 and Python 3
• Efficient interactive computing workflows with IPython
• Learning the basics of the distributed version control system Git
• A typical workflow with Git branching
• Ten tips for conducting reproducible interactive computing experiments
• Writing high-quality Python code
• Writing unit tests with nose
• Debugging your code with IPython