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Another ques­tion for the ‘web — what’s the “best” python code you’ve seen — and I don’t mean things like gra­tu­itous use of list comps and lam­bas. I’m ask­ing for more what module/tool/code have you seen that dis­plays all of python’s best attrib­utes — read­abil­ity, sim­plic­ity, power cou­pled with excel­lent pro­gram­ming prac­tices, i.e: docs, tests, PEP8 com­pli­ance, etc?

Obvi­ously, what con­sti­tutes “beau­ti­ful code” varies for peo­ple — some peo­ple get their hap­pi­ness from writ­ing obfus­cated code, oth­ers find any­thing involv­ing more than one line of code an affront to their deity.

Given that code is more often read than writ­ten: What code do you like read­ing the most?

as a side note: I was mak­ing an anal­ogy that houses are like code bases — filled with cre­ative engi­neer­ing, latent defects, etc to Brett, and rhetor­i­cally asked “but how many code bases have toi­lets”. Brett had an answer: Accord­ing to Google code, about 7000.

Another ques­tion for the ‘web — what’s the “best” python code you’ve seen — and I don’t mean things like gra­tu­itous use of list comps and lam­bas. I’m ask­ing for...