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...
