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Introduce them to Rich IDEs and help them set it up with a consistent configuration so they can help each other. Put git hooks in to control for silly errors. Create a style guide that scales with the importance of the project. for understanding the language more deeply, "python cookbook" by David Beasley. ask them to make everything pip installable. introduce code walk throughs to your workflow, with the intention of group peer-review.

When you see an interesting block of code that you see could be refracted, hold a session showing your refactoring of that code. You'll have to do it twice, once to figure it out, second to present. It's very time-consuming but it's the best way for people to learn