Learning Python Coding Techniques and Idioms by Browsing Python Source Code

Study the standard libraries source code for good examples of Python coding.


Using Pythonic Idioms and Style:
Definition of "Pythonic" here
Presentations:
How to Write Pythonic" code by Christopher Arndt
Presentation on "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" by David Goodger
Presentation on "Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python" (Crunchy Remix) by Jeff Hinrich 

Bruce Eckel's community contributed book: Python 3 - Patterns & Idioms


See Also:
My blog on Learning Python

Source Code Browsing Tools

Source Insight 3.5 Download Instructions

Source Insight Video 

ack -- better than grep, a power search tool for programmers

Source-Navigator

Splint Home Page (C code static checking)

Browse by Query

scan.coverity.com : Accelerating Open Source Quality  

Eclipse:

Eclipse IDE with C++ CDT

Eclipse CDT 4.0 Webinar
This webinar will walk through all of CDT's features from new project creation, code editing, and source navigation, to build and debug with a special focus on what's new in CDT 4.0.  

Eclipse CDT - Webinar on Developing C/C++ Applications

Eclipse C++ Development Howtos, Tutorials, Guides and Videos

NetBeans:

NetBeans IDE with C++ support

NetBeans - Development with C and C++ Learning Trail

Global

GNU GLOBAL source code tag system

idutils - Summary [Savannah]

taglist.vim - Source code browser (supports C-C++, java, perl, python, tcl, sql, php, etc) vim

Using Global with Vim Tutorial

CScope

cbrowser | Get cbrowser at SourceForge.net

VI and VIM editor: Tutorial and advanced features from YoLinux

Vim-Cscope tutorial

Ctags

Browsing programs with tags - Vim Tips Wiki - a Wikia wiki

Exuberant Ctags

Exuberant Ctags FAQ

VI and VIM editor: Tutorial and advanced features

Doxygen

___CodeProject: 10 Minutes to document your code. Free source code and programming help

__Download details HTML Help Workshop and Documentation

__Graphviz Setup Download

Doxygen (Extensions to doxygen for other languages support)

Doxygen Commenting Commands

Doxygen Projects

Doxygen Quick Reference.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Eclox (plugin integrates Doxygen with Eclipse)

Graphviz

graphviz build notes

MscGen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mscgen A Message Sequence Chart Renderer (Call Sequence)

xchm (chm for Unix Linux MacOSx)

chmProcessor: Word/HTML to CHM converter

Doxygen Browser Addin for Visual Studio

Download Doxygen Browser 0.1.3 Beta Free - Softpedia

GCC_XML

__Boost.Python (the C++ Python connection)

__Boost.Python C++ code generator Introduction

__Edison Design Group (C++ Compiler Based Analysis for Tools)

__pyplusplus introduction

__Pyste (Boost C++ code generator) Documentation

__Python C++ language binding

__What is Boost.Python Tutorial

FAQ ___GCC-XML (cpp2xml) - Generate XML description of C++ code

Info on Parsing C++ at nobugs.org - UnUpdated but Useful

pygccxml - Python parser for GCC-XML output

pyste - Boost.Python wrapper generator for GCC-XML

Sourceforge - C++ Python Language Bindings Download

The gccxml Mailing List Archives

The VFiasco Project (with Links on Parsing C++)

Lxr

___SourceForge.net LXR Cross Referencer

__LXR - The Linux Cross Reference (like SourceInsight)

Vim

0scan - Tags based search for any things you might want to find(ctags, buffers etc)

C++ code completion - Vim Tips Wiki

OmniCppComplete - C/C++ omni-completion with ctags database : vim online

Recommended Vim plugins for C coding? - Stack Overflow

SourceCodeObedience - Browse source code easily with cscope, ctags and marks system

Learning by Source Code Browsing Miniaturized Open Source Software

Links:

[Networking]
Tiny Http daemon: thttpd (tiny http web server), apache's httpd at trunk - GitHub
Pion : (Web Analytics Server written in C++ Boost under Boost Open Source license)
Pion binary downloads for Redhat, Ubuntu, OSX and Windows are available at: http://www.atomiclabs.com/pion-web-analytics/download.php
1) Pion Core Platform: Pion Core is an open source software platform for building stream computing (also known as complex event processing) applications.
2) Pion-Net Library:The Pion Network Library (pion-net) is a C++ development library for implementing lightweight HTTP interfaces. (C++ Boost STL Multithreading Asio Networking Library) Download the source code here


ACE:

ACE is an open-source framework that provides many components and patterns for developing high-performance, distributed real-time and embedded systems. ACE provides powerful, yet efficient abstractions for sockets, demultiplexing loops, threads, synchronization primitives.

TAO (The ACE ORB) is an open-source implementation of a CORBA Object Request Broker (ORB) built using components and patterns in the ACE framework.

CIAO (Component Integrated ACE ORB) is an open-source implementation of the CORBA Component Model (CCM) built on top of TAO.

DAnCE is an open-source implementation of the Deployment and Configuration standard (D&C) built on top of TAO.

Download ACE, TAO and CIAO source code  (Distributed Network Middleware Framework and ORB)

uIP (Micro implementation of TCP/IP stack)
Download - uIP source
Memcached distribute caching: memcached - Google Code, memcached - GitHub



[STL]
SGI STL Site and Resources (Design docs, FAQs, Books)
Download SGI STL source code (C++ Standard Template Library implementation)
(Related to STL)
A standard allocator for C++ STL on sourceforge
Database Template Library - DTL on sourceforge
DTL docs
Download DTL source code

[Other]
VideoLAN - VLC media player source code
LXR Cross Referencer  (Online Source code Browser)

TODO: Resources for Source Code Reading

(Podcast) Software Engineering Radio on Software Archaeology
(Audio) Grady Booch on Software Archaeology and Related Topics (OOPSLA)
(Book) Code Reading : The Open Source Perspective
(Book) Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
(Book) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
(Tool/Article) GLIMPSE :  A tool to search through entire filesystems
60 Years of Software Archaelogy
An Empirical Approach to Software Archaeology
(Book/SW) Software Tools in Pascal by Kernighan and Plauger
(Paper) Locating Program Features using Execution Slices
(Paper) Programmers use Slices when Debugging by Mark Weiser
(Article) OOD Archaeology with CIA++
(Paper) On the criteria to be used for decomposing systems into modules by Parnas
(Paper) Porting Unix to WindowsNT
(Article/Paper) Seeking the Source
Software Archaeology: Reconstructing the Evolution of Software
Software Maintainance as Part of the SDLC
(Paper) The relationship between slices and module cohesion
Usenix-Interix