Re: [Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Anthony Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote "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? I don't know anything specific in Python but one of the greatest pieces of pro

Re: [Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-06 Thread Prosenjit Kundu
Marilyn Davis wrote: This is pretty cool: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ Marilyn Davis On Fri, June 6, 2008 4:34 pm, Anthony Parks wrote: that sounds like good advice, but i think what i meant is something along the lines of: "what are particularly great programs to *

Re: [Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-06 Thread Marilyn Davis
This is pretty cool: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/ Marilyn Davis On Fri, June 6, 2008 4:34 pm, Anthony Parks wrote: > 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 grea

Re: [Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-06 Thread 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

Re: [Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Anthony Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

[Tutor] how to read a program

2008-06-06 Thread Anthony Parks
ive been using diveintopython to learn how to write programs but i want to sink my teeth into reading some bigger programs, to study them and maybe pick up something new, especially from programs where the development isn't well document (unlike something like pidgin's development documentation wh