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Python Object-Oriented Programming

Python Object-Oriented Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Steven F. Lott, Dusty Phillips
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Python Object-Oriented Programming

Python Object-Oriented Programming

3.9 (34)
By: Steven F. Lott, Dusty Phillips

Overview of this book

Python Object-Oriented Programming, Fourth Edition is a practical guide to advancing your OOP skills with modern Python. Going beyond the fundamentals, it helps you work with Python as an OOP language, explore both common and advanced design patterns, and apply these concepts to data manipulation and testing of complex OOP systems. Each chapter features newly written open-ended exercises as well as a real-world case study, aligned with the improvements in Python 3.11—bringing faster execution and memory efficiency to your applications. Authors Steven F. Lott and Dusty Phillips provide a comprehensive, illustrative tour of important OOP concepts, such as inheritance, composition, and polymorphism, showing how they integrate with Python’s classes and data structures to facilitate good design. The book also introduces two powerful automated testing systems, unittest and pytest, and explores Python's concurrent programming ecosystem in depth. By the end of the book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of how to think about and apply object-oriented principles using Python syntax to create robust and reliable programs.
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Composition

So far, we have learned to design systems as a group of interacting objects, where each interaction involves viewing objects at an appropriate level of abstraction. But we don't yet know how to create these levels of abstraction. There are a variety of ways to do this; we'll discuss some advanced design patterns in Chapters 10, 11, and 12. But even most design patterns rely on two basic object-oriented principles known as composition and inheritance. Composition is simpler, so let's start with that.

Composition is the act of collecting several objects together to create a new one. Composition is usually a good choice when one object is part of another object. We've already seen a first hint of composition when talking about cars. A fossil-fueled car is composed of an engine, transmission, starter, headlights, and windshield, among numerous other parts. The engine, in turn, is composed of pistons, a crank shaft, and valves. In this example,...

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