Professional quality scripts/code

[robean]

On Oct 3, 1:26 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> 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