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Python: Master the Art of Design Patterns

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Python: Master the Art of Design Patterns

Overview of this book

Python is an object-oriented scripting language that is used in everything from data science to web development. Known for its simplicity, Python increases productivity and minimizes development time. Through applying essential software engineering design patterns to Python, Python code becomes even more efficient and reusable from project to project. This learning path takes you through every traditional and advanced design pattern best applied to Python code, building your skills in writing exceptional Python. Divided into three distinct modules, you’ll go from foundational to advanced concepts by following a series of practical tutorials. Start with the bedrock of Python programming – the object-oriented paradigm. Rethink the way you work with Python as you work through the Python data structures and object-oriented techniques essential to modern Python programming. Build your confidence as you learn Python syntax, and how to use OOP principles with Python tools such as Django and Kivy. In the second module, run through the most common and most useful design patterns from a Python perspective. Progress through Singleton patterns, Factory patterns, Façade patterns and more all with detailed hands-on guidance. Enhance your professional abilities in in software architecture, design, and development. In the final module, run through the more complex and less common design patterns, discovering how to apply them to Python coding with the help of real-world examples. Get to grips with the best practices of writing Python, as well as creating systems architecture and troubleshooting issues. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: ? Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition by Dusty Phillips ? Learning Python Design Patterns - Second Edition by Chetan Giridhar ? Mastering Python Design Patterns by Sakis Kasampalis
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
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A. Bibliography
5
Index

Chapter 7. The Flyweight Pattern

Object-oriented systems can face performance issues due to the overhead of object creation. Performance issues usually appear in embedded systems with limited resources, such as smartphones and tablets. The same problem can appear in large and complex systems are where we need to create a very large number of objects (and possibly users) that need to coexist at the same time.

This happens because whenever we create a new object, extra memory needs to be allocated. Although virtual memory provides us, theoretically, with unlimited memory, the reality is different. If all the physical memory of a system gets exhausted, it will start swapping pages to the secondary storage, usually a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), which, in most cases, is unacceptable due to the performance differences between the main memory and HDD. Solid State Drives (SSD) generally have better performance than HDD, but not everybody is expected to use SSD. So, SSD are not going to totally...