Case study
In this chapter, we'll continue developing elements of the case study. We want to explore some additional features of object-oriented design in Python. The first is what is sometimes called "syntactic sugar," a handy way to write something that offers a simpler way to express something fairly complex. The second is the concept of a manager for providing a context for resource management.
In Chapter 4, Expecting the Unexpected, we built an exception for identifying invalid input data. We used the exception for reporting when the inputs couldn't be used.
Here, we'll start with a class to gather data by reading the file with properly classified training and test data. In this chapter, we'll ignore some of the exception-handling details so we can focus on another aspect of the problem: partitioning samples into testing and training subsets.
Input validation
The TrainingData object is loaded from a source file of samples...
