Best practice for starting with python in VSC?

#python #vscode #testing #lint

Hi, I would like to ask for your recommendation about coding in Python, mainly with VSC. I have time coding, but "never" that serious; now, I want to do it like it should be. I have read several Python standards but I have some doubts mainly in Linting, Testing, Virtuals Environments, and Docstrings. I have find some good extensions in VSC marketplace and (to me) the more relevant are installed with Python Official Extension.

Linting

I was reading about linting here and found several Linters for Python, before that I was using the only one I knew, Flake8. Now, I believe I will switch to Pylama (which has all from Flake8) with Bandit. Both of them are supported in the Python Official Extension by VSC, so I don't know if some knows an argument that will improve the use of both of them. Or if another extension is better to use them both.

I don't like that much code formatting, I feel like it causes more trouble when it changes things

Testing

I have little experience with test and I have only use the unittest, but reading here I believe Pytest is far more complete, should I change to it?

A "basic" test extension is installed with Python Official Extension from VSC, but I don't know if there are better extensions for this. I supposse it is compatible with unittest, pytest and nose. What I don't is how to do test in several Python version with VSC, I believe is a good practice, but I don't know if I must have installed all the other python's versions to do this.

Virtual Environments

I know VSC let you have at least 1 virtual environment but I don't know if I can have a venv for each folder (different projects but same workspace) without me changing it manually every time. Maybe is better to have a workspace from each project in this case?

Also, I don't know if I should use pyenv or venv to create the environment, their differences so far seems meaningless to me. I know that you can create conda environments too, but I have never done it, and VSC supports it. Maybe there is good extension for this, I don't trust the ones I have found yet.

Docstrings

I use the Numpy format, which is in the Python Official Extension, I complement this with Python Type Hint to write better documentation in my code. I don't think there is another extension that can help me to document my code.

Well, I know I might be asking for a lot, but I have read about it on my own, so I needed someone else's recommendation for this. Thanks for your help.