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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By : Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma
Book Image

Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By: Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma

Overview of this book

Software Engineering is about more than just writing code—it includes a host of soft skills that apply to almost any development effort, no matter what the language, development methodology, or scope of the project. Being a senior developer all but requires awareness of how those skills, along with their expected technical counterparts, mesh together through a project's life cycle. This book walks you through that discovery by going over the entire life cycle of a multi-tier system and its related software projects. You'll see what happens before any development takes place, and what impact the decisions and designs made at each step have on the development process. The development of the entire project, over the course of several iterations based on real-world Agile iterations, will be executed, sometimes starting from nothing, in one of the fastest growing languages in the world—Python. Application of practices in Python will be laid out, along with a number of Python-specific capabilities that are often overlooked. Finally, the book will implement a high-performance computing solution, from first principles through complete foundation.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Programming versus Software Engineering

Implementing JSONFileDataObject

Defining the JSONFileDataObject abstract class starts with a standard ABCMeta metaclass specification, and some class-level attributes for various purposes:

class JSONFileDataObject(BaseDataObject, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    """
Provides baseline functionality, interface requirements, and 
type-identity for objects that can persist their state-data as 
JSON files in a local file-system file-cache
"""
    ###################################
    # Class attributes/constants      #
    ###################################

    _file_store_dir = None
    _file_store_ready = False
    _loaded_objects = None

Where:

  • _file_store_dir is a default file system directory specification that will eventually need to be read from a configuration file in the final installable application. For the time being, and...