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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

Template pattern


Key 4: Refining algorithm to use case.

In this pattern, we define the skeleton of an algorithm in a method called the template method, which defers some of its steps to subclasses. How we do this is as follows, we analyze the procedure, and break it down to logical steps, which are different for different use cases. Now, we may or may not implement the default implementation of these steps in the main class. The subclasses of the main class will implement the steps that are not implemented in the main class, and they may skip some generic steps implementation. In the following example, AlooDish is base class with the cook template method. It applies to normal Aloo fried dishes, which have a common cooking procedure. Each recipe is a bit different in ingredients, time to cook, and so on. Two variants, AlooMatar, and AlooPyaz, define some set of steps differently than others:

import six

class AlooDish(object):

    def get_ingredients(self,):
        self.ingredients = {...