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Metaprogramming with Python

By : Sulekha AloorRavi
Book Image

Metaprogramming with Python

By: Sulekha AloorRavi

Overview of this book

Effective and reusable code makes your application development process seamless and easily maintainable. With Python, you will have access to advanced metaprogramming features that you can use to build high-performing applications. The book starts by introducing you to the need and applications of metaprogramming, before navigating the fundamentals of object-oriented programming. Next, you will learn about simple decorators, work with metaclasses, and later focus on introspection and reflection. You’ll also delve into generics and typing before defining templates for algorithms. As you progress, you will understand your code using abstract syntax trees and explore method resolution order. This Python book also shows you how to create your own dynamic objects before structuring the objects through design patterns. Finally, you will learn simple code-generation techniques along with discovering best practices and eventually building your own applications. By the end of this learning journey, you’ll have acquired the skills and confidence you need to design and build reusable high-performing applications that can solve real-world problems.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Fundamentals – Introduction to Object-Oriented Python and Metaprogramming
4
Part 2: Deep Dive – Building Blocks of Metaprogramming I
11
Part 3: Deep Dive – Building Blocks of Metaprogramming II

Defining the sequence of methods

Defining the methods helps us in understanding each of the operations performed at each counter in detail. Let’s define the classes and methods required to fulfill the actions to be performed in each operation. We will be covering the following counters in this section:

  • The vegetable counter
  • Less than 10 items counter
  • Greater than 10 items counter
  • The electronics counter

Let’s begin with the vegetable counter.

The vegetable counter

The following are the steps for the operation of this counter:

  1. We will first create the VegCounter class as follows:
    class VegCounter():
  2. In the following code, we will be defining the return_cart method that returns the list of items added to the shopping cart:
        def return_cart(self,*items):
            cart_items = list(items)
            return cart_items
  3. Let’...