Crista Perlton on November 20th, 2025.
Creating Python Packages for private use is much easier than packages bound for open-source sites. Follow these authoring best practices for your packages.
Crista Perlton on July 31st, 2025.
Here are 8 tips and tricks you and your team can use to immediately improve your Python scripts.
Crista Perlton on February 6th, 2025.
Bad scripting practices will eventually land you in script hell. This article will teach you how to make Python packages that keep you out of script hell and on the road to Python mastery.
Crista Perlton on November 28th, 2023.
CI/CD is one of the best development processes around; so you shouldn't be surprised it works well with Python! Read our post to learn a great way to get started.
Crista Perlton on November 15th, 2023.
This article is part of a series on Effective Package Management in Python, also available as a chapter in our free, downloadable eBook Picture this: a fantastic Python app with a growing number of tests, employing either unittest or pytest. Running pytest test_*.py helps you perform unit tests and protects your code from breaking,...
Crista Perlton on September 6th, 2023.
Open-source packages like those found on PyPI.org have helped every python user get their projects off the ground. Read to learn more about best management practices.
Crista Perlton on September 16th, 2022.
This article is part of a series on Effective Package Management in Python, also available as a chapter in our free, downloadable eBook Can you spot the difference between colorama and colourama? Sure, one is American English, and the other is aimed at British-English users. One of these is a malicious Python package designed to trick...
Crista Perlton on May 3rd, 2022.
Having uncontrolled package dependencies can lead to some unintended consequences, like version conflict and even malicious and vulnerable packages. Let’s see what happens when you let those dependency trees go unchecked.
Crista Perlton on May 1st, 2022.
You know about CI/CD and you’re already using Python—so what’s stopping you from using them together?
Crista Perlton on April 13th, 2022.
Regularly scanning for vulnerabilities is the best way to protect against vulnerabilities that pop up and the risks that they bring. Learn How to Automate Vulnerability Scanning for PyPI Packages.