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		jacobolus on July 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? The Python standard library is hit-or-miss. Some parts are really excellent code. Other parts are horribly hacky crap from 1990 that can’t be ripped out or improved for backwards-compatibility reasons.

nekopa on July 16, 2015 [–]

Thanks for that input, that is exactly what I thought it would be. My problem is that I am not able to discern the crap from good at my level.

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