Python Development Excellence Skill

Provide Python development guidance on type hints, async/await, and pytest.

472|75|Updated Oct 25, 2025

Search Tags:#best practices #pytest #clean code #type hints #programming #Python #asyncio #modern python

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Skill: Python Development Excellence Skill
Source: https://github.com/aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills/tree/main/skills/python
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/aj-geddes/claude-code-bmad-skills --skill python-development-excellence-skill

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires requests, pydantic, pytest, black, mypy, ruff, hypothesis, memory_profiler, sqlalchemy, boto3, jwt, bcrypt, cryptography, redis.

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides comprehensive guidance on modern Python development, covering best practices, idioms, and professional patterns. It helps users write clean, maintainable, and performant Python code, avoiding common pitfalls.

Core Features & Use Cases

Modern Python Features: Guidance on type hints, walrus operator, structural pattern matching, and dataclasses.
Idioms & Best Practices: Covers list comprehensions, context managers, decorators, generators, and argument unpacking.
Async Programming: Examples for async/await for concurrent operations.
Testing & Performance: Best practices for pytest, profiling, and optimization techniques.
Use Case: You're writing a new Python service and need to ensure type safety and efficient asynchronous operations. Use this Skill to get examples for type hints, async/await patterns, and pytest fixtures.

Quick Start

Show me an example of how to use Python's structural pattern matching for processing different command types.