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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

Command pattern


Key 8: Easy-execution management for commands.

In this pattern, we encapsulate information that is needed to execute a command in an object so that command itself can have further capabilities, such as undo, cancel, and metadata that are needed at a later point of time. For example, let's create a simple Chef in a restaurant, users can issue orders (commands), commands here have metadata that are needed to cancel them. This is similar to a notepad app where each user action is recorded with an undo method. This makes coupling loose between caller and the invoker, shown as follows:

import time
import threading

class Chef(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self,name):
        self.q = []
        self.doneq = []
        self.do_orders = True
        threading.Thread.__init__(self,)
        self.name = name
        self.start()

    def makeorder(self, order):
        print("%s Preparing Menu :"%self.name )
        for item in order.items:
            print("cooking ",item...