Inspired by a few blogs that I follow I wanted to share my current setup for Python projects that I use personally. This setup might vary based on clients that I have, but for my own projects this is what I mostly use:

• iTerm, zsh & oh-my-zsh with my own coloured theme.
• VSCode, with the following plugins:
  • Python for VSCode
  • autopep8
  • Bracket pair colorizer 2
  • Indent rainbow
  • Git Lens
• Virtualenv (with virtualenvwrapper)
  • All environments are saved in the ~/.environments folder,
• black & isort for code-formatting and sorting imports
• Pytest for tests, with coverage (pytest-cov)

Sometimes my projects are inside a Docker container and don’t need the virtual environment, a specific dockerfile for that Python version is sufficient enough.

As for looking more into the future, I want to look into Poetry for managing environments and dependencies. And based on my experience with more typed languages I wanted to integrate mypy into my environment as well.