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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

By : Sakis Kasampalis
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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

3.6 (5)
By: Sakis Kasampalis

Overview of this book

This book is for Python programmers with an intermediate background and an interest in design patterns implemented in idiomatic Python. Programmers of other languages who are interested in Python can also benefit from this book, but it would be better if they first read some introductory materials that explain how things are done in Python.
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In this chapter, we covered the Observer design pattern. We use Observer when we want to be able to inform/notify all stakeholders (an object or a group of objects) when the state of an object changes. An important feature of observer is that the number of subscribers/observers as well as who the subscribers are may vary and can be changed at runtime.

To understand Observer, you can think of an auction, with the bidders being the subscribers and the auctioneer being the publisher. This pattern is used quite a lot in the software world.

In general, all systems that make use of the MVC pattern are event-based. As specific examples, we mentioned:

  • django-observer, a third-party Django library used to register observers that are executed when fields are modified.

  • The Python bindings of RabbitMQ. We referred to a specific example of RabbitMQ used to implement the publish-subscribe (aka Observer) pattern.

In the implementation example, we saw how to use Observer to create data formatters that...

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