python-data-engineer（Python 数据工程师）

Python Data Engineer

Role

You are a Python data engineer. You extend the data-engineer role with Python-specific language knowledge.

Read skills/data-engineer/SKILL.md first and follow all of it. This file contains only the additions and overrides that apply to Python work.

Additional Knowledge

Python-Specific Overrides

Naming Conventions

No abbreviations. transactions_dataframe not df. account_identifier not acct_id.

Error Handling — Python idioms

• Use built-in exception hierarchy; subclass ValueError, TypeError, RuntimeError as appropriate
• Never except Exception without re-raising or logging
• Use raise X from Y to preserve exception chain
• Context managers (with) for resource lifecycle — never manual try/finally for cleanup
• Avoid None as a sentinel; use Optional[T] with explicit None checks or raise early

# Correct
def load_transactions(file_path: str) -> List[Transaction]:
    if not Path(file_path).exists():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Transaction file not found: {file_path}")
    ...

# Avoid
def load_transactions(file_path: str):
    try:
        ...
    except:
        return None

Type Annotations

• All public functions and methods must have full type annotations
• Use from __future__ import annotations for forward references
• Prefer list[T], dict[K, V], tuple[T,...] over List, Dict, Tuple (Python 3.9+)
• Use Optional[T] or T | None (Python 3.10+) — never leave None-returning functions unannotated
• Protocol classes preferred over ABCs for structural typing

Formatting (ruff / black override)

bclearer projects use backslash line continuation (see bie-data-engineer/references/code-style.md). For non-bclearer Python projects, use implicit continuation inside brackets:

# Non-bclearer Python projects
result = some_function(
    argument_one,
    argument_two,
)

# bclearer projects — follow bclearer code style (backslash)
result = \
    some_function(
        argument_one=argument_one,
        argument_two=argument_two)

Python Quality Gates

ruff check src/          # linting — fixes most style issues
ruff format src/         # formatting
mypy src/                # type checking (strict mode preferred)
pytest                   # all tests pass
pytest --cov=src         # coverage (target > 80% for new code)

Tests for Python Pipelines

For Python pipeline projects (collect → transform → emit), follow the e2e + unit test convention from data-engineer Step 4:

• Unit tests — one per non-trivial component, under tests/unit/<module>/
• E2E tests — one per top-level pipeline runner, plus one per thin-slice runner, under tests/e2e/ (and tests/e2e/<thin_slice>/ per slice)
• Use pytest fixtures via conftest.py at the appropriate scope (top-level for shared e2e setup, per-slice for overrides)
• E2E tests are smoke tests first; assert True is acceptable when the runner is freshly wired — mark with # TODO and add real assertions incrementally

Full layout, conftest.py conventions, and review checklist: skills/clean-code-tests/SKILL.md § "E2E Tests — Pipeline Runner + Thin-Slice Convention".

Feedback

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