glob() searches one folder, rglob() searches every folder below it. Neither sorts the results, skips folders like .venv, or matches .CSV on Linux. Add those yourself, and always do a dry run before deleting anything.
pip freeze gives exact versions but hides what you chose. A hand-written file shows what you chose but isn't exact. For anything you deploy, keep both: one file for intent, one frozen for exact versions.
Separate zero collected tests from an import failure, install into the correct environment, and prove the selected test catches a broken assertion.
for line in file reads one line at a time, so a 10 GB file uses almost no memory. read() and readlines() load everything. Count, filter and stop early without building a list, and read in blocks when there are no lines.
Downloads spend most of their time waiting. ThreadPoolExecutor lets many waits overlap: 20 half-second downloads in 2 seconds instead of 10. Handle failures with as_completed, pick a sensible worker count and respect the server.
Python refuses to guess whether "5" + 5 means 55 or 10. Convert with int(), float() and str() where values come in, handle text that won't convert, and avoid the bool("False") trap.
People type the wrong thing, sometimes more than once. A while True loop with try/except, a range check and a way out keeps asking until the answer is usable, so the rest of your code never has to check again.
Write a context manager when something must be undone no matter how the block ends. Build one as a class and with @contextmanager, keep yield inside try/finally, and don't swallow errors by accident.