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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns - Third Edition

By : Kamon Ayeva, Sakis Kasampalis
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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

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By: Kamon Ayeva, Sakis Kasampalis

Overview of this book

As software systems become increasingly complex, maintaining code quality, scalability, and efficiency can be a daunting challenge. Mastering Python Design Patterns is an essential resource that equips you with the tools you need to overcome these hurdles and create robust, scalable applications. The book delves into design principles and patterns in Python, covering both classic and modern patterns, and apply them to solve daily challenges as a Python developer or architect. Co-authored by two Python experts with a combined experience of three decades, this new edition covers creational, structural, behavioral, and architectural patterns, including concurrency, asynchronous, and performance patterns. You'll find out how these patterns are relevant to various domains, such as event handling, concurrency, distributed systems, and testing. Whether you're working on user interfaces (UIs), web apps, APIs, data pipelines, or AI models, this book equips you with the knowledge to build robust and maintainable software. The book also presents Python anti-patterns, helping you avoid common pitfalls and ensuring your code remains clean and efficient. By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently apply classic and modern Python design patterns to build robust, scalable applications.
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Part 1: Start with Principles
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OCP

The OCP is another fundamental principle in software design. It emphasizes that software entities, such as classes and modules, should be open for extension but closed for modification. What does that mean? It means that once a software entity is defined and implemented, it should not be changed to add new functionality. Instead, the entity should be extended through inheritance or interfaces to accommodate new requirements and behaviors.

When thinking about this principle and if you have some experience writing code for non-trivial programs, you can see how it makes sense, since modifying an entity introduces a risk of breaking some other part of the code base relying on it.

The OCP provides a robust foundation for building flexible and maintainable software systems. It allows developers to introduce new features or behaviors without altering the existing code base. By adhering to the OCP, you can minimize the risk of introducing bugs or unintended side effects when making...

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