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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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1. The Factory Pattern
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Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to use the Prototype design pattern. Prototype is used for creating exact copies of objects. Creating a copy of an object can actually mean two things:

  • Relying on references, which happens when a shallow copy is created
  • Duplicating everything, which happens when a deep copy is created

In the first case, we want to focus on improving the performance and the memory usage of our application by introducing data sharing between objects. But we need to be careful about modifying data, because all modifications are visible to all copies. Shallow copies were not introduced in this chapter, but you might want to experiment with them.

In the second case, we want to be able to make modifications to one copy without affecting the rest. That's useful for cases like the cake-recipe example that we have seen. Here, no data sharing is done and so we need to be careful about the resource consumption and the overhead that is introduced by our clones.

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