Ask HN: What's the most beautiful code written in Python you have ever seen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528922

by pedrodelfino • 9 years ago

19 7 9 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

navbaker• 9 years ago

I once programmed a complete chess board in four lines of code:

import chess
import chess.svg
board = chess.Board()
board

I'm pretty sure I'm a genius.

tcbawo• 9 years ago

I've enjoyed reading a lot of Peter Norvig's python code. There is his Lisp implemention (http://norvig.com/lispy.html). He also created a spell checker that was an informative and interesting read.

teapot01• 9 years ago

Go to python repl

import this

svisser• 9 years ago

Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369

sharmi• 9 years ago

This was back in 2005-2006. I was working with a guy who loves to code. His favorite way to spend the weekend was to figure out ways to make our services more robust and optimized. He had one major disadvantage.

His forgetfulness was legendary. He could barely remember what happened in the morning or what code he wrote. He made this his strength by writing the cleanest and well-structured code I have ever seen. So, not only him, but anyone, without any prior knowledge, can jump into the code at any point in time and immediately understand the flow and be productive. Obviously, it helps that the code was in Python, but being in python by itself does not a great code make.

RUG3Y• 9 years ago

I've said this in other threads recently - The Flask source code is really awesome and reading helped me learn Python better.

git-pull• 9 years ago

SQLAlchemy:

https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy

http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vunIDi9Z-_8 (Introduction to SQLAlchemy, 2014, 2:52:50)

http://www.aosabook.org/en/sqlalchemy.html (Overview in The Architecture of Open Source Applications)

Ask HN: What's the most beautiful code written in Python you have ever seen?

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