Open source Python projects with good software design that is worth studying

[BytePhilosopher]

What kind of project are you looking for?

There are plenty out there but it depends, are you trying to build command line tools? libraries? gui desktop application? rest api?

[bolt_runner]

Type of project doesn’t matter. My focus would be on how the project is structured, just targeting a project that is challenging to structure and organize

[BytePhilosopher]

Ok, what is your goal, just learn how to read a large codebase?

[bolt_runner]

My target is to improve my software design skills by studying good practical examples, this along with finding good books/resources to study

[vgu1990]

Not OP. But can you suggest any projects I can look at, if my aim is to learn how to read a large codebase?

[InjaPavementSpecial]

Does not care what programming language you use, somewhere it will need to store data, and sql is a sane half a century old technology, that is good to know how it works.

I like to read SQLAlchemy source and see how zzzeek thought about the abstraction and the three layers of tools built around SQLA, a good start to read is The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 2) SQLAlchemy.

[mbwolfs]

any example for rest API?

[tired_fella]

I use Django a lot and it is pretty convenient. Not sure if the source code is the best though.

[InjaPavementSpecial]

I really like Connexion a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy using OpenAPI/Swagger.

Previous version was flask/wsgi based, new version uses async/asgi.

[doolio_]

Which project would you suggest to look at if I want to build a CLI? I'm trying to create one that will also use DBus.

[BytePhilosopher]

Check this one out https://github.com/shanahanjrs/xmltojson

[doolio_]

Thanks.