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Development Guidelines
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Coding Guidelines
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For the most part we try to follow PEP 8 guidelines which can be viewed
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here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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There is a useful pep8 command line tool for checking files for pep8
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compliance which can be installed with ``easy_install pep8``.
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Documentation Guidelines
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The documentation in docstrings should follow the PEP 257 conventions
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(as mentioned in the PEP 8 guidelines).
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More specifically:
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1. Triple qutes should be used for all docstrings.
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2. If the docstring is simple and fits on one line, then just use
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one line.
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3. For docstrings that take multiple lines, there should be a newline
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after the opening quotes, and before the closing quotes.
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4. Sphinx is used to build documentation, so use the restructured text
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markup to designate parameters, return values, etc. Documentation on
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the sphinx specific markup can be found here:
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http://sphinx.pocoo.org/markup/index.html
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License and Copyright
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Every source file should have the following copyright and license statement at
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the top::
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# Copyright (c) 2010 OpenStack, LLC.
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#
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# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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# You may obtain a copy of the License at
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#
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# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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#
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# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
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# implied.
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# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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# limitations under the License.
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