On May 31, 8:38 am, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Also "Python Programming" by Lutz has some great code to learn from as it also explains most of it. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
