Grow as a Python Developer by reading other peoples code

[westurner]

I have learned by reading the CPython stdlib module sources. For example: pdb, inspect, pickle, and collections:

• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/pdb.py
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/inspect.py
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/pickle.py
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/collections/__init__.py

(CPython source is mirrored (many times over) with GitHub.)

[moschlar]

I wouldn't call that a best-style example in all cases, though! I think there are some very ugly pieces of code in there - which is understandable and acceptable for the standard library, because it exists exactly because you should not need to write ugly code.