[Chicago] Looking for a well designed yet sizable project to read

[Martin Maney]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:43:56AM -0400, Brian Curtin wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2011 11:04 AM, "Tathagata Dasgupta" <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > BTW, there seems to be a number of projects that exist like monolithic
> > .py file - is that good design?
> 
> It's certainly not bad design - it just depends on the needs of your
> project. "Flat is better than nested" is a common theme in Python which
> applies to a lot of things - project layout included.

Yeah.  I've escaped from the tyranny of "real" OOD and now use whatever
mix of objects, functions, higher-order functions, and that Python
special, namespaces, that the work in hand seems to call for.  As the
design is proven it often becomes apparent where parts of it should
crystallize into objects, but starting with them...  well, I'm not
opposed in principle, just don't often feel moved to.  And always gotta
remember how easy it is to organize stuff in a namespace.  Classes are
a sometimes-useful special case of namespaces.  :-)

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