On Oct 3, 1:26 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > robean a crit : > > > I have been learning Python for the last 3 months or so and I have a > > working (but somewhat patchy) sense of the the language. I've been > > using a couple of the more popular Python books as well as online > > resources. > > > A question for experienced Python programmers: can you recommend > > resources where I can look at high quality Python code and scripts? > > Well... Not everything is 'high quality' in it[1], but why not start > with the stdlib ? Most of it is pure Python, opensource code and is > already installed on your machine, isn't it ?-) > > [1] IIRC, last time I had a look at the zipfile module's code, it was > more of a Q&D hack than anything else - now as long as it works fine for > what I do with it and I don't have to maintain it, well, that's fine. > > > I've spent some time athttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/but am > > concerned that the quality of what is posted there can be somewhat hit > > and miss. > > Indeed. > > > What I have in mind is a site like cpan, where one can look > > at the actual source code of many of the modules and learn a thing or > > two about idiomatic Perl programming from studying the better ones. > > Any sites like that for Python? > > Lurking here is probably a good way to see a lot of code reviews. And > even possibly to submit snippets of your own code to review. Some (if > not most) of us here like to show how good we are at improving the poor > newbies code !-)
Many thanks, Mike and Bruno, The resources you mention are exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for. Soon enough I hope to give all of you many chances to improve this poor newbie's code...! - Robean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
