[socal-piggies] A good project to look at?

[Jathan McCollum]

See, I would argue the opposite.  If it's so bad, why haven't people
fixed them?  Too lazy?  Yeah, I'll go with too lazy. My faith in
humanity is adorable, isn't it?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to have to dispute inspecting Python standard library code
> as a way to learn good Python forms. In fact, my dispute is shared by
> a number of people on that convore thread.
>
> The problem with the standard library, especially in the 2.x series is
> that there are large components of it that don't follow PEP8, or any
> standard, or are designed 'oddly'. They were included because years
> ago Guido and the community were not quite as particular as to what
> got into Python core. This has been greatly addressed in Python 3, and
> one could say is one of the driving reasons for that project.
>
> In any case, if I were going to recommend good code examples, I would go with:
>
> Kenneth Reitz' requests library for solid design and good code
> quality. And unlike the stdlib's urllib and urllib2 libraries, it is
> meant for humans. :D
>
> https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
>
> I also like some of the inner workings of Evite's Nudge library:
>
> https://github.com/evite/nudge
>
> I'll list more if I can think of them.
>
> Danny
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Jathan McCollum <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Someone on that Convore thread suggested that you inspect the code from
>> Python's standard library. I second that. If you haven't done so already,
>> you can do so knowing that only the best code makes it's way in there!
>>
>> jathan.
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 17:05, Paul Hildebrandt <paul_hildebrandt at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> There is a convore thread talking all about this subject:
>> https://convore.com/python/examples-of-good-python-code/
>>
>>
>> On 06/17/2011 04:54 PM, Michael Chean wrote:
>>
>> At one point in the "Learn Python the Hard Way" the author suggests looking
>> at an open source project.  Any suggestions
>> for a reasonable sized project which uses good Python form?
>> Also very much liked the discussion on your favorite libs.
>> Mike
>>
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