[Tutor] how to read a program

[Anthony Parks]

that sounds like good advice, but i think what i meant is something along
the lines of:

"what are particularly great programs to *read*. not like great software,
but great source code. somewhat like treating source code as a literature,
what are the classics?

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

>
> "Anthony Parks" <abstractpoetry at gmail.com> wrote
>
>  which is insanely detailed). are there any specific pieces of software
>> written in python you would recommend a novice to read? programs that
>> illustrate python at its finest, beautiful stretches of code? thanks for
>> any
>> help
>>
>
> You could start with the Python standard library. Many of the modules
> there are fairly sparecly documented, partly because they are quite
> well written!
>
> Then look at the tools that ship with Python.
>
> Then just search SourceForge for python projects.
>
> Alan G
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