My overall initial first impressions of this book are very good.
I will document my local spacemacs setup to as I work through the book.
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Nice one Robert - I’ll look forward to seeing how you get on 
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Spacemacs notes wrt Python dev
From the develop branch of spacemacs we have the Python Layer.
A layer in Spacemacss configuration block that pulls in a set of emacs packages and allows you to configure those packages.
The Python layer brings in a lot of features many of which intersect with the tooling described in the book.
backend
I have set the backend to lsp as I have that already installed, but the layer by default uses anaconda and I wonder if that is because it is tested better there.
Well yes there is a note that lsp is slated to be replaced with a new language server for python called pyright. So I’ll try that to see if it “reduces cpu cooler fan noise”
Installed it using
npm install -g pyright
SPC h d python python backend
TAB to config.el and edit python-lsp-server there using instructions in the var descriptions
Static code checkers
Spoiled for choice, notes for each
In spacemacs SPC e is the chord that brings up options for flycheck mode which presents errors reported by static code checkers.
Ideally I would like to run all the checks all the time - i.e. I would like to chain static code checkers
SPC e s allows you to select a static checker
entering python filters the available checkers
To see the errors found as a list SPC e l
flake8
I installed this on the local machine as per Python layer
I set the checker using SPC e s then selecting python-flake8
mypy
TODO Chain mypy on to list of flycheck / lsp static code checkers
Need to move on to other tasks will revisit this …
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