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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

Summary

The principles for good software design apply on all levels. In the same way that we want to write readable code, and for that we need to mind the intention revealing degree of the code, the architecture also has to express the intent of the problem it is trying to solve.

All these ideas are interconnected. The same intention revealing that ensures our architecture is defined in terms of the domain problem also leads us to abstract details as much as possible, create layers of abstraction, invert dependencies, and separate concerns.

When it comes to reusing code, Python packages are a great and flexible alternative. Criteria, such as cohesion and the single responsibility principle (SRP), are the most important considerations when deciding to create a package. In line with having components with cohesion and few responsibilities, the concept of microservices comes into...

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