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Re:Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? by raverbashing on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:02PM (#9899557)
Norvig's code have several qualities to praise

Adherence to Python's best practices / pep-8 are not one of them

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Re:Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? by andreasvc on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:30PM (#9900498)
PEP 8 itself has the quote "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." It is not intended as a prescriptive standard that everyone needs to follow, just a recommendation.
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Re:Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? by raverbashing on Friday July 17, 2015 @03:57AM (#9901682)
Yeah, I know that, you need to tell everybody else

I'd rather have Norvig's code solving some IA problem than some perfectly compliant PEP-8 code solving an issue in a naive way

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