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Python Unlocked

By : Arun Tigeraniya
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Python Unlocked

By: Arun Tigeraniya

Overview of this book

Python is a versatile programming language that can be used for a wide range of technical tasks—computation, statistics, data analysis, game development, and more. Though Python is easy to learn, it’s range of features means there are many aspects of it that even experienced Python developers don’t know about. Even if you’re confident with the basics, its logic and syntax, by digging deeper you can work much more effectively with Python – and get more from the language. Python Unlocked walks you through the most effective techniques and best practices for high performance Python programming - showing you how to make the most of the Python language. You’ll get to know objects and functions inside and out, and will learn how to use them to your advantage in your programming projects. You will also find out how to work with a range of design patterns including abstract factory, singleton, strategy pattern, all of which will help make programming with Python much more efficient. Finally, as the process of writing a program is never complete without testing it, you will learn to test threaded applications and run parallel tests. If you want the edge when it comes to Python, use this book to unlock the secrets of smarter Python programming.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Python Unlocked
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using language protocols in classes


All objects that provide a specific functionality have certain methods that facilitate that behavior, for example, you can create an object of type worker and expect it to have the submit_work(function, kwargs), and is _completed() methods. Now, we can expect all objects that have these methods to be usable as workers in any application portion. Similarly, the Python language has defined some methods that are needed to add a certain functionality to an object. If an object possesses these methods, it has that functionality.

We will discuss two very import protocols: iteration protocol, and context protocol.

Iteration protocol

For iteration protocol, objects must possess the __iter__ method. If the object possesses it, we can use the object anywhere that we use an iterator object. When we are using the iterator object in a for loop or passing it to the iter built-in function, we are calling its __iter__ method. This method returns another or the same object...