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Clean Code in Python - Second Edition

By : Mariano Anaya
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Clean Code in Python - Second Edition

By: Mariano Anaya

Overview of this book

Experienced professionals in every field face several instances of disorganization, poor readability, and testability due to unstructured code. With updated code and revised content aligned to the new features of Python 3.9, this second edition of Clean Code in Python will provide you with all the tools you need to overcome these obstacles and manage your projects successfully. The book begins by describing the basic elements of writing clean code and how it plays a key role in Python programming. You will learn about writing efficient and readable code using the Python standard library and best practices for software design. The book discusses object-oriented programming in Python and shows you how to use objects with descriptors and generators. It will also show you the design principles of software testing and how to resolve problems by implementing software design patterns in your code. In the concluding chapter, we break down a monolithic application into a microservices-based one starting from the code as the basis for a solid platform. By the end of this clean code book, you will be proficient in applying industry-approved coding practices to design clean, sustainable, and readable real-world Python code.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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What are decorators in Python?

Decorators were introduced in Python a long time ago, in PEP-318, as a mechanism to simplify the way functions and methods are defined when they have to be modified after their original definition.

We first have to understand that in Python, functions are regular objects just like pretty much anything else. That means you can assign them to variables, pass them around by parameters, or even apply other functions to them. It was typical to want to write a small function, and then apply some transformations to it, generating a new modified version of that function (similar to how function composition works in mathematics).

One of the original motivations for introducing decorators was that because functions such as classmethod and staticmethod were used to transform the original definition of the method, they required an extra line, modifying the original definition of the function in a separate statement.

More generally speaking, every...