[rglullis]

I don't know what would be of my life right now without Django and I can't praise it enough... but "good example of readable python-code", it is not.

[justinph]

However, I think it's one of the best examples of phenomenal documentation.

[endtime]

I learned a lot from reading the Django codebase. I didn't read it like a book, I read parts of it as I tried to figure out how to do things in Django, but I never felt like the code was bad. This was around 5 years ago so it's possible things have gotten more convoluted since then.

If the OP wants to grok a small, discrete codebase then I agree that Django is not what he's looking for.