[Tutor] taking Python to next level (original) (raw)

Aztech Guy aztech1200 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 24 17:51:55 CEST 2004

Hi,

Brian van den Broek <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> wrote: where sitting down for serious study of a medium-sized chunk of code would do me some real good.

I'd call it a bit smaller than medium-sized, but this project of mine may be of use as a sample of code to study:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf

It uses procedural Python, object-oriented Python (some), dictionaries, lists, file I/O, and also a third-party library.

It's a project to provide ways to convert other file formats to PDF. Needs the freely available open source version of the ReportLab toolkit (www.reportlab.org) which is also written in Python. Also needs Python 2.2 or higher. I took care to make the code fairly well-written, with mnemonic identifiers, reasonably modular design, and lots of comments. There are also test programs with test input files. And the whole thing works, correctly :-) - at least, I did a lot of testing, and there were no known bugs when I released it - except one, which I would call a known bug, because its something I'm aware of, but haven't fixed yet - too long lines of text get truncated in the output PDF file. Other than that, didn't find any, nor has anyone reported any to me yet. That doesn't mean there are none, though, but its likely that there are only a few, if any. My $0.02. Feel free to ask questions about the code.

HTH Az Tech.

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