How to look at sorce code

[microsoft92sucks]

Looking up svn is'ent helping can you be more pacific.

[WW]

Take a look at the games and demos at pygame.org.

[ankursethi]

There's a book which has some tips on reading source code called "Code Reading : The Open Source Perspective" which starts from basic UNIX apps like echo and goes up to the X server. You might find it helpful, though most of the examples in it are in C.

[pmasiar]

After reading intro book, start with simple programs. Real programs (with GUI and error handling) might be too complicated for a beginner. After couple months, when you wrote and debug your own 500 line program, reading code of other people will suddenly become much easier. You will be able to see "patterns" and distinguish bigger chunks of the code.

But really deeply reading and understanding code of other people is hard, reading code is always slower that reading ie. sci-fi novel

[ssam]

to get the source code to any program in ubuntu you can run

apt-get source program_name

to get a list of all the ubuntu packages using pygame

apt-cache rdepends python-pygame

so pick one of those and run, for example

apt-get source singularity

[cunawarit]

Looking up svn is'ent helping can you be more pacific.

svn is the client for Subversion.

Subversion is version control system, it is open source and just about everyone uses it (yep, even Microsoft heavy companies do). Many open source projects will tell you the URL for their repositories so you can download the source.

[microsoft92sucks]

Thanks ssam now I get how this all work's.

[microsoft92sucks]

Take a look at the games and demos at pygame.org.

Thanks for this site there's lot's of Python source code here.