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Ask HN: Python Open Source Projects for someone learning it after Java/Scala

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I am learning Python after 10 years of Java, Scala and JavaScript. I am not learning Python for Data Science, ML or AI, but as a language. And I really want to master the language. What open source projects could I contribute to, to further my Python skills and help Open source as well?

The only constraint is that I am new to Python, but not new to Programming.

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How about PyPy, an implementation of Python itself in Python: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html

Django and Airflow are two of the biggest active open source Python projects. With Django specifically you've also got a significant plugin ecosystem and tools like Django REST Framework that are like their own mini ecosystems.

(self-promotion) I've created an open source C compiler written in Python (https://github.com/ShivamSarodia/ShivyC). I've learned a ton building it out so far, and I've found compiler design to be a great exercise in software engineering and learning Python since managing the complexity of a compiler is nontrivial. If you're interested in contributing, a good place to start is by tackling any of the issues marked as "good first issue".

I find that I like to study the language implementation itself. Sometimes when I read the documentation for some method or function I will go look at how it was actually implemented and try to understand how it works.

Keeps me in the “context” of the moment also and i sort of have a goal with reading source code instead of just reading random implementations here and there. Once in a while I pick up a nugget or two that I don’t think I would have found otherwise.

Seems to work for me...

Try Flask, and writing extensions for your favorite services if they don’t already exist.

Any links to help me get started?

I second this. The pallet's organization is filled with Python projects. It's very active and you can get code merged and questions answered quickly https://github.com/pallets

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