Examples of high-quality python code?
Larry Bates
larry.bates at websafe.com
Thu May 31 09:38:38 EDT 2007
kaens wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm relatively new to python - I actually picked it up
> to see how quickly I could start building non-trivial apps with it.
>
> Needless to say, I was quite pleased.
>
> Anyhow, I'm looking to expand my understanding of python, and I feel
> that one of the best ways to do that is looking at other peoples code.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't feel like I grok the python mindset quite well
> enough to fully distinguish between awesome, average, and not-pythony
> code, so I was hoping some of the more experienced python people could
> point me to some (preferably FOSS) non-trivial apps written in python
> that are examples of great python code.
>
> I realize this may be a bit ambiguous - basically I don't want to go
> randomly downloading other people's source and end up assimilating
> techniques that aren't . . . well . . . pythonistic.
>
> So, who wants to hook me up?
You should consider picking up a copy of Python Cookbook. Alex and
others have reviewed the code it contains and IMHO it is well written.
I've also learned quite a lot from:
Python on Win32 (book by Mark Hammond/Andy Robinson)
Reading source code to standard library
Reading ReportLab source (www.reportlab.org)
Reading PIL source (www.effbot.org)
Reading wxPython source (www.wxpython.org)
Monitoring this list on a daily basis
-Larry
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