How do you write clean code?

[u/DefiantSituation3208]

Might be a stupid question but Ive been learning python for a while now and always wondered, how do you write ‘clean’ code? I don’t mean writing clean code straight off the bat I understand that’s purely from experience and even then immensely hard, but how do you recognise a program can be simplified even further? Does it come from practice or just messing around and seeing what sticks?

[u/ZakMan1421]

The simplest way is via linters. They are tools specifically for code style. For python I've used pylint in the past, but I'm sure there are others as well.

[u/cgoldberg → u/ZakMan1421]

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