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Clean Code in Python

You're reading from   Clean Code in Python Refactor your legacy code base

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835831
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mariano Anaya Mariano Anaya
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Preface 1. Introduction, Code Formatting, and Tools FREE CHAPTER 2. Pythonic Code 3. General Traits of Good Code 4. The SOLID Principles 5. Using Decorators to Improve Our Code 6. Getting More Out of Our Objects with Descriptors 7. Using Generators 8. Unit Testing and Refactoring 9. Common Design Patterns 10. Clean Architecture 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Use case

As an example of how we might organize the components of our application, and how the previous concepts might work in practice, we present the following simple example.

The use case is that there is an application for delivering food, and this application has a specific service for tracking the status of each delivery at its different stages. We are going to focus only on this particular service, regardless of how the rest of the application might appear. The service has to be really simple—a REST API that, when asked about the status of a particular order, will return a JSON response with a descriptive message.

We are going to assume that the information about each particular order is stored in a database, but this detail should not matter at all.

Our service has two main concerns for now: getting the information about a particular order (from wherever this might...

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