Useful Tools

TODO: A list of some useful stuff people might not know about

Python auto-documentation

• pdoc
  • easily convert docstrings (which you should totally use) into html documentation
  • install: pip install pdoc. example usage: pdoc demo.py --> html documentation

Other

• pbzip2

Parallel implementation of bzip2 compression

Launchpad page and source download

Tutorial with examples

• Environment Modules

Enables easy loading and unloading of environments for different programs

IDEs and IDE extensions

• PyCharm is my go-to IDE for Python development

  • I really like the comments highlighter extension. I define # ! to be shown in bold, and then I can have comments like # ! Plot my data and it makes a nice eye-catching bold "header"-looking comment in PyCharm.

• VS Code is great too, just up to preference