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Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by bbrazil » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:01 PM UTC

nekopa wrote: post #6

clinth wrote: post #4

Requests - https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests . How to make a usable api. The decisions that went into each method call were fantastic. Great test coverage as well. I use package in most python development.

Thanks, I've been hearing a lot about this package, I think it's one I will check out. Cheers!

This presentation by the author explains the thinking behind it: https://speakerdeck.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by pdeuchler » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

aaronjgreenberg wrote: post #36

Jumping on the Kenneth Reitz train, you might check out The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/ He recommends the following Python projects for reading: * Howdoi ( https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi ) * Flask ( https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask ) * Werkzeug ( https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug ) * Requests ( https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests ) * Tablib ( https://github.com/k…

+1 to anything written by Kenneth Reitz, he's also a fantastic OSS maintainer and extremely welcoming of newbies and their PR's if you want to put some of your learning into practice

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by edoceo » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:04 PM UTC

Gentoo Portage package manager. Its a big project, lots of moving parts, actively developed. Really helped me with learning Python

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by jonjacky » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:06 PM UTC

Peter Norvig's examples. They are quite short and include much explanation in addition to code. They also include tests and benchmarking code.

http://norvig.com/lispy.html http://norvig.com/lispy2.html (Lisp interpreter)

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html (Spelling corrector)

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html (Sudoku solver)

Also his online course Design of Computer programs includes many short, well-explained Python examples:

https://www.udacity.com/wiki/cs212

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by jscottmiller » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

Bottle: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle

It's a nice, small, fast web framework. Great for building APIs. Also, it's one ~3k loc, readable file.[1]

[1] https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/blob/master/bottle.py

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by mapleoin » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

Also, how about examples of good web applications built on python with available source code?

Rather than seeing the code of great libraries, I sometimes want to see how people use them in the real world.

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by tzury » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:16 PM UTC

1 - (web, network, file system, and more).

    tornado - 
    tornadoweb.org 
    github.com/facebook/tornado

2 - scapy

    The entire product runs on the python CLI

    secdev.org/scapy

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by rglullis » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:18 PM UTC

mattwritescode wrote: post #26

The django project is a good example of a large opensource project which has aged well. http://github.com/django/django

I don't know what would be of my life right now without Django and I can't praise it enough... but "good example of readable python-code", it is not.

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by shoyer » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

I recommend PyToolz, "set of utility functions for iterators, functions, and dictionaries": https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz

The functions in PyToolz are short, well tested and idiomatic Python (thought the functional programming paradigm they support is not quite so idiomatic). I recommend starting with the excellent documentation: http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

In particular, the API docs have links to the source code for each function: http://toolz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

Re: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read?

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Post by giancarlostoro » Thu, Jul 16, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

I see nobody has recommended CherryPy: http://www.cherrypy.org/

It is a minimal web framework like Sinatra or Flask. The beautiful thing about CherryPy is you write code for it the same way you would write general Python code. I enjoy using it for small projects from time to time.

edit:

Bickbucket Repository: https://bitbucket.org/cherrypy/cherrypy/overview