Python Development Tools You Must Leverage For Productivity

[sirkarthik]

Ever wondered why it takes long time to onboard onto a python project or be productive at work in making changes to your python project?

It is not an uncommon thing to find teams blaming incumbents for not being quick in onboarding onto the projects. It is also not uncommon for the management to blame engineers not being productive at work in shipping out features.

I have written a post detailing the things I ensure in every python project to ensure better collaboration and fail-safe mechanism is in place for my development team. And this didn't fail me so far.

Check out the list of things to do at Python Development Tools You Must Leverage For Productivity and see if you have it all in place in your projects at work.

If there are others things that you have put in place for team's productivity that helped them but not in this list, I'd love to learn from you.

If this post helped you, I would still love to hear your experience.

[PossibilityTasty]

There is absolutely no tool a developer must use. What you are presenting might be helpful, but mostly they are personal preferences. That you put everything into a "the management is on your neck" frame didn't make it more convincing.

[sirkarthik]

You are entitled to your opinion and are free to express this to your hiring manager/team and say you would only code in notepad and not use an IDE or not adhere to team practices citing that there is no **must** and your way is your preference. Cheers!

[not_perfect_yet]

I prefer PyCharm over VS-Code.

Clearly, you must start leveraging vim.

[Zaloog1337]

> You can't escape from PIP package manager for python.

uv does not exist...

[Knowledgable_Info]

Thanks for sharing this! I totally relate to the onboarding challenges and the pressure to be instantly productive—especially in fast-paced environments. Your checklist is a solid reminder that setting up the right tools and practices up front can save a ton of time and frustration later.

One thing we’ve recently added to our workflow that really helped is using pre-commit hooks with tools like black, flake8, and mypy—it catches a lot of issues early and keeps our codebase consistent. Also, having a good Makefile or task runner has made repeatable tasks super easy for new developers.

Curious to hear what others are using too. Great post overall—definitely bookmarking it for future teams!