> I propose to create a single document that contains all the coding guidelines.
> I propose to create a single document that contains all the coding guidelines.

perhaps the google style could be a good template or basis for outline http://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html

personally i prefer a well structured reference style document to a informal prose on the subject. 

I think that the reason we have the two documents is that the contributing guidelines contains the descriptive introduction for first time contributors and the code style document contains more details. This second document was only recently introduced and adding the content and some migration of content from the contributing guidlines is WIP.

contributions and PRs welcome.

_Originally posted by @simonjayhawkins in https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/33851#issuecomment-621145606_