Where is excellent Python code?

#1

Post by jmasonherr » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 5:30 PM UTC

I'm a self taught programmer looking to see what others consider very good looking code. I want good style, so I'm looking for others to emulate. Are there any packages out there that come to mind? Why?

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#2

Post by plw » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

I guess built-in libraries may be a good start.

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#3

Post by jmasonherr » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

What about BeautifulSoup? It stands out to me as extremely usable and friendly. Any comments on how it looks under the hood?

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#4

Post by ORioN63 » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

Python Standard Library is well written, if you want to have a look at it.(Decimal is easy and full of programming examples).

And:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327710

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599994

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#5

Post by jmasonherr » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 5:45 PM UTC

Thank you both!

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#6

Post by bmelton » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

Django[1] source is lovely, and they're pretty rigid about PEP rules, so it's a stellar example.

Flask[2] source code is also lovely.

[1] - https://github.com/django/django

[2] - https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#7

Post by easonchan42 » Fri, Apr 06, 2012, 8:44 PM UTC

Requests: HTTP for Humans

Lovely code and good documentation

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

Also checkout the Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#8

Post by easonchan42 » Sun, Apr 08, 2012, 12:08 PM UTC

Doug hellmann's awesome Python Module of the Week series (http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/)

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#9

Post by kracekumar » Mon, Apr 09, 2012, 6:02 AM UTC

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask

Re: Where is excellent Python code?

#10

Post by trope » Wed, Apr 11, 2012, 3:34 AM UTC

jmasonherr wrote: post #3

What about BeautifulSoup? It stands out to me as extremely usable and friendly. Any comments on how it looks under the hood?

Not a comment about under the hood, but, BeautifulSoup's use of CamelCase in module names and the fact that it's a parser for the ugliest shit out there (HTML) makes me believe the code is more soup than beautiful.