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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook 133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207455
Length 822 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-In Data Structures Part 1: Lists and Sets 5. Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries 6. User Inputs and Outputs 7. Basics of Classes and Objects 8. More Advanced Class Design 9. Functional Programming Features 10. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 11. Testing 12. Web Services 13. Application Integration: Configuration 14. Application Integration: Combination 15. Statistical Programming and Linear Regression 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Application Integration: Combination

The Python language is designed to permit extensibility. We can create sophisticated programs by combining a number of smaller components. In this chapter, we'll look at ways to take a number of smaller components and create sophisticated combinations.

We'll look at the complications that can arise from composite applications and the need to centralize some features, like command-line parsing. This will enable us to create uniform interfaces for a variety of closely related programs.

We'll extend some of the concepts from Chapter 7, Basics of Classes and Objects, and Chapter 8, More Advanced Class Design, and apply the idea of the Command Design Pattern to Python programs. By encapsulating features in class definitions, we'll find it easier to combine features.

In this chapter, we'll look at the following recipes:

  • Combining two applications into one
  • Combining many applications using the...
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