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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Interface segregation

The interface segregation principle (ISP) provides some guidelines over an idea that we have revisited quite repeatedly already: that interfaces should be small.

In object-oriented terms, an interface is represented by the set of methods an object exposes. This is to say that all the messages that an object is able to receive or interpret constitute its interface, and this is what other clients can request. The interface separates the definition of the exposed behavior for a class from its implementation.

In Python, interfaces are implicitly defined by a class according to its methods. This is because Python follows the so-called duck typing principle.

Traditionally, the idea behind duck typing was that any object is really represented by the methods it has, and by what it is capable of doing. This means that, regardless of the type of the class, its name...

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