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Mastering Object-Oriented Python - Second Edition

By : Steven F. Lott
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Mastering Object-Oriented Python - Second Edition

By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a relatively complex discipline to master, and it can be difficult to see how general principles apply to each language's unique features. With the help of the latest edition of Mastering Objected-Oriented Python, you'll be shown how to effectively implement OOP in Python, and even explore Python 3.x. Complete with practical examples, the book guides you through the advanced concepts of OOP in Python, and demonstrates how you can apply them to solve complex problems in OOP. You will learn how to create high-quality Python programs by exploring design alternatives and determining which design offers the best performance. Next, you'll work through special methods for handling simple object conversions and also learn about hashing and comparison of objects. As you cover later chapters, you'll discover how essential it is to locate the best algorithms and optimal data structures for developing robust solutions to programming problems with minimal computer processing. Finally, the book will assist you in leveraging various Python features by implementing object-oriented designs in your programs. By the end of this book, you will have learned a number of alternate approaches with different attributes to confidently solve programming problems in Python.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Tighter Integration Via Special Methods
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Section 2: Object Serialization and Persistence
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Section 3: Object-Oriented Testing and Debugging

Implementing REST with a web application framework

A RESTful web server is a web application. This means we can leverage any of the popular Python web application frameworks. The complexity of creating RESTful services is low. The preceding examples illustrate how simple it is to map the CRUD rules to HTTP Methods.

Some of the Python web frameworks include one or more REST components. In some cases, the RESTful features are almost entirely built-in. In other cases, an add-on project can help define RESTful web services with minimal programming. For example, https://flask-restful.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ is a REST framework that can be used as a Flask extension.

Searching PyPI (https://pypi.python.org) for REST will turn up a large number of packages. There are numerous solutions that are already available. Most of these will offer some levels of simplification for common cases...