[matthiasv]

Maybe you haven't looked very often but nice code is out there for quite some time. Take a look at anything related to the GNOME stack (GLib, GTK+, all the applications) or the Linux kernel for example. And quite frankly, I stumble upon badly written Python way more often than C.

[spullara]

The code for those might be great, but Redis is beautiful inside and outside. I'm not a fan of the actual output of the GNOME stack. I agree the Linux kernel code is generally great to read and to use.

[avtar]

"And quite frankly, I stumble upon badly written Python way more often than C."

I'm curious, which public codebases would you consider to be examples of well written Python?

[matthiasv]

The often cited requests library, flask and Django. Some counter examples are high profile projects such as IPython and Matplotlib.

[avtar]

Thanks. I'll spend some time with Requests over the weekend. It looks like the person who maintains that library is also behind this http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/#writing-great-code

[16s]

IMO, OpenBSD and tarsnap are other notable samples of clean C code.

[maurycy]

I'd also mention FreeBSD kernel and Niels Provos' code.