Ask HN: Modern, open source python 3 code bases?

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Python has advanced greatly in recent years. I started writing in it full time about 2 years ago and still constantly come across features (mostly 3.4+) that I didn't know existed. I have read a number of books but I can never be sure if what they preach is really up to date. I would like to learn more by reading other peoples' code. Are there any code bases you can recommend?

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Are you looking more for frameworks and libraries or app level code?

For the former, the source of Django, Django Rest Framework, Requests and Flask (as well as most things by Kenneth Reitz and Armin Ronacher) are all great codebases to look at.

A few other good resources are the blog PyMOTW 3 [1] and Brett Slatkin's book Effective Python [2].

[1]: https://pymotw.com/3/

[2]: http://www.effectivepython.com/

Anything written by Doug Hellmann (author of the aforementioned PyMOTW) is well worth a read.

https://github.com/tomchristie/apistar

I haven't read it yet but have heard good things.

Thanks for the link, that looks like an awesome package (in terms of its function and ability, haven't read through the code for quality).

Working on a Django project at the moment, and seeing this made me think: "Oh awesome, this could be extremely useful, but I'm already using Django...". And then I read about it using the Django ORM. Magic!

Not the answer you can expect but Pro Python is a good book to start, have you read it?

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