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Use when reading or writing Python files (.py, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt).

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Python Best Practices

Follows type-first, functional, and error handling patterns from CLAUDE.md. This skill covers language-specific idioms only.

Make Illegal States Unrepresentable

Use Python's type system to prevent invalid states at type-check time.

Frozen dataclasses for immutable domain models:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime

@dataclass(frozen=True)
class User:
    id: str
    email: str
    name: str
    created_at: datetime

# Frozen dataclasses are immutable — no accidental mutation

Discriminated unions with Literal:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Literal

@dataclass
class Success:
    status: Literal["success"] = "success"
    data: str

@dataclass
class Failure:
    status: Literal["error"] = "error"
    error: Exception

RequestState = Success | Failure

def handle_state(state: RequestState) -> None:
    match state:
        case Success(data=data):
            render(data)
        case Failure(error=err):
            show_error(err)

NewType for domain primitives:

from typing import NewType

UserId = NewType("UserId", str)
OrderId = NewType("OrderId", str)

def get_user(user_id: UserId) -> User:
    # Type checker prevents passing OrderId here
    ...

Protocol for structural typing:

from typing import Protocol

class Readable(Protocol):
    def read(self, n: int = -1) -> bytes: ...

def process_input(source: Readable) -> bytes:
    # Accepts any object with a read() method — no inheritance required
    return source.read()

Python-Specific Error Handling

Chain exceptions with from err to preserve the original traceback:

try:
    data = json.loads(raw)
except json.JSONDecodeError as err:
    raise ValueError(f"invalid JSON payload: {err}") from err

Structured Logging

Use a module-level logger with %s formatting (deferred string interpolation):

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger("myapp.widgets")

def create_widget(name: str) -> Widget:
    logger.debug("creating widget: %s", name)
    widget = Widget(name=name)
    logger.debug("created widget id=%s", widget.id)
    return widget

Optional: ty

For fast type checking, consider ty from Astral (creators of ruff and uv). Written in Rust, significantly faster than mypy or pyright.

uvx ty check          # run directly, no install needed
uvx ty check src/     # check specific path

# pyproject.toml
[tool.ty]
python-version = "3.12"

When to choose:

  • ty — fastest, good for CI and large codebases (early stage, rapidly evolving)
  • pyright — most complete type inference, VS Code integration
  • mypy — mature, extensive plugin ecosystem

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