On May 3, 12:24 pm, TomF <tomf.sess...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm interested in improving my python design by studying a large, > well-designed codebase. Someone (not a python programmer) suggested > Django. I realize that Django is popular, but can someone comment on > whether its code is well-designed and worth studying?
I once delved into django because I wanted to use a couple of the administrative tools for non-web tasks, and found it to be disappointingly ad hoc. It it makes some assumptions about file locations and module names (unnecessarily, IMO). It works well as long as someone sticks to the rigid conventions, but can't cope well with deviances. Therefore I'd call its codebase less than exemplary. As a tool it's quite good (as long as you can stick to the prescribed layout) but that's a different question. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
