Re: Understanding other people's code

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On 7/12/2013 10:22 AM, L O'Shea wrote:
> Hi all, I've been asked to take over a project from someone else and
> to extend the functionality of this. The project is written in Python
> which I haven't had any real experience with (although I do really
> like it) so I've spent the last week or two settling in, trying to
> get my head around Python and the way in which this code works.

If the functions are not documented in prose, is there a test suite that 
you can dive into?


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Understanding other people's code "L O'Shea" <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-12 07:22 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-13 00:46 +1000
  Re: Understanding other people's code Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-12 17:21 +0200
  Re: Understanding other people's code "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org> - 2013-07-12 12:04 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-12 18:11 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-07-12 19:49 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-07-13 23:58 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-15 03:02 -0700
    Re: Understanding other people's code CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-07-15 12:13 -0700
    Re: Understanding other people's code albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-07-27 13:13 +0000
      Re: Understanding other people's code Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-27 14:41 +0100
  Re: Understanding other people's code asimjalis@gmail.com - 2013-07-15 19:10 -0700
  Re: Understanding other people's code David M Chess <chess@us.ibm.com> - 2013-07-16 14:38 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-16 20:05 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code David Hutto <dwightdhutto@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 22:57 -0400
  Re: Understanding other people's code Azureaus <lo0446@my.bristol.ac.uk> - 2013-07-25 09:26 -0700

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