The Zope3 codebase.
Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was a major eye-opener for me as-well. I jumped into various python modules and was amazed at what I discovered. Like the easter-egg hidden away in "this.py": http://pastebin.com/f25f08f20 (Couldn't figure out how to get code formatting to work properly)
Ha. All that code at the bottom of the file could be replaced by "print s.decode('rot13')" - I suppose it's backwards compatible though...
Or forward-compatible, since encode/decode in py3k is between bytes and unicode only.
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#13Mailman http://list.org/
Things you should be looking at are queues and error handling in an asynchronous message passing architecture.
Also you'll learn that not every web application needs an SQL database for persistence.
Re: Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
#14I learned quite a bit from web.py (http://github.com/webpy/webpy/tree/master). It's small enough to be fun to poke through, but has more than enough "advanced" Python tricks to be worth your while.
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#15twisted is very clean and readable.
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#16I've always found Django to be a very clean code base.
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#17BitTorrent http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/
The BitTorrent code looked awful the last time I saw it; complete with 20 arguments for one function.
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#18The Cookbook (Amazon it, I'm too sleepy to link) contains examples of idiomatic code that you should use.
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#19It's an essay that contains code, but this is one of my all time favorites: Peter Norvig writes a spelling corrector in 21 lines of Python: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
Norvig's sudoku-solving essay is pretty awesome, too (100 lines of Python).
Re: Ask HN: Good python code for code reading
#20Python ships with plenty of good python code. Just take your time and read through the Lib directory of your standard python distribution.