[Tutor] how to read a program

[Marilyn Davis]

This is pretty cool:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

Marilyn Davis

On Fri, June 6, 2008 4:34 pm, Anthony Parks wrote:

> that sounds like good advice, but i think what i meant is something along
>  the lines of:
>
> "what are particularly great programs to *read*. not like great software,
>  but great source code. somewhat like treating source code as a
> literature, what are the classics?
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> "Anthony Parks" <abstractpoetry at gmail.com> wrote
>>
>>
>> which is insanely detailed). are there any specific pieces of software
>>> written in python you would recommend a novice to read? programs that
>>>  illustrate python at its finest, beautiful stretches of code? thanks
>>> for any help
>>>
>>
>> You could start with the Python standard library. Many of the modules
>> there are fairly sparecly documented, partly because they are quite well
>> written!
>>
>> Then look at the tools that ship with Python.
>>
>>
>> Then just search SourceForge for python projects.
>>
>>
>> Alan G
>>
>>
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