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aaronjgreenberg | 10 years ago

Jumping on the Kenneth Reitz train, you might check out The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/

He recommends the following Python projects for reading:

* Howdoi (https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi)

* Flask (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask)

* Werkzeug (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug)

* Requests (https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests)

* Tablib (https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib)

Hope that helps---good luck!

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pdeuchler|10 years ago

+1 to anything written by Kenneth Reitz, he's also a fantastic OSS maintainer and extremely welcoming of newbies and their PR's if you want to put some of your learning into practice

tallerholler|10 years ago

I would add the Django project to that list as it's a very large, mature, and successful open source python project - https://github.com/django/django

rectangletangle|10 years ago

Django's source is very high quality. Though due to the large scope of the project, there are necessarily many layers of indirection, which may be a bit daunting for someone who is just starting out.

However reading the less abstract parts may help. For instance, the paginator is pretty self contained. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/pag...

alexchamberlain|10 years ago

Is the Django project Pythonic? I mean, on the one hand, Python is the language of bells and whistles builtin. On the other hand, packages are encouraged to be simple and to the point.

Whilst this wasn't a discussion on which framework is best (and I'm not a Web dev by trade either), I must say I turn to Flask, as I find the API more Pythonic.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Django source code is probably great, but the less heavyweight packages/frameworks the better. Learn Pythonic API design from somewhere else.

nekopa|10 years ago

Holy crap! I don't know if this helps or hinders! ;)

Thank you for this resource, much appreciated!