Authored by Damien Irving, Kate Hertweck, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Charlotte Wickham, and Greg Wilson.

I learned a lot, and you should come back to it for more, especially the chapter on building CLI tools with Python.

All their advice is sound, except I do not agree that the MIT license should be recommended (which the authors argue based on the observation that "The last thirty years have shown that this restriction [of the GPL] isn’t necessary" which I cannot understand).

The book is a thorough walk-through that is sure to get most anyone up and running creating research software with Python and is beneficial to any researcher or research student curious about the Python programming language and the shell.