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Mastering Object-oriented Python

You're reading from   Mastering Object-oriented Python If you want to master object-oriented Python programming this book is a must-have. With 750 code samples and a relaxed tutorial, it's a seamless route to programming Python.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280971
Length 634 pages
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Mastering Object-oriented Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Some Preliminaries
1. The __init__() Method FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Seamlessly with Python Basic Special Methods 3. Attribute Access, Properties, and Descriptors 4. The ABCs of Consistent Design 5. Using Callables and Contexts 6. Creating Containers and Collections 7. Creating Numbers 8. Decorators and Mixins – Cross-cutting Aspects 9. Serializing and Saving – JSON, YAML, Pickle, CSV, and XML 10. Storing and Retrieving Objects via Shelve 11. Storing and Retrieving Objects via SQLite 12. Transmitting and Sharing Objects 13. Configuration Files and Persistence 14. The Logging and Warning Modules 15. Designing for Testability 16. Coping With the Command Line 17. The Module and Package Design 18. Quality and Documentation Index

Using Callable classes for WSGI applications


We can implement WSGI applications as Callable objects instead of standalone functions. This allows us to have stateful processing in our WSGI server without the potential confusion of global variables. In our previous example, the get_spin() WSGI application relied on two global variables, american and european. The binding between the application and global can be mysterious.

The point of defining a class is to encapsulate the processing and data into a single package. We can use Callable objects to encapsulate our applications in a better manner. This can make the binding between stateful Wheel and WSGI applications clearer. Here is an extension to the Wheel class that makes it into a callable WSGI application:

from collections.abc import Callable
class Wheel2( Wheel, Callable ):
    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        winner= self.spin() # 3. Evaluate.
        status = '200 OK' # 4. Respond.
        headers = [('Content-type...
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