Track 10 · Lesson 12 of 12

Reading documentation and choosing packages

Read documentation, help() output, docstrings and signatures confidently, judge whether a third-party package is safe to depend on, and build a small utility package in four milestones.

You will be able to

• Find what you need in official documentation and help(), and read a function signature including / and *
• Write docstrings and inspect signatures and docstrings with the inspect module
• Judge a third-party package on maintenance, licence, security and popularity before installing it
• Build a small package of your own, use it from a script, and generate a report of its documented API