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Mastering Python Design Patterns

You're reading from   Mastering Python Design Patterns A guide to creating smart, efficient, and reusable software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837484
Length 248 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sakis Kasampalis Sakis Kasampalis
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Kamon Ayeva Kamon Ayeva
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Factory Pattern FREE CHAPTER 2. The Builder Pattern 3. Other Creational Patterns 4. The Adapter Pattern 5. The Decorator Pattern 6. The Bridge Pattern 7. The Facade Pattern 8. Other Structural Patterns 9. The Chain of Responsibility Pattern 10. The Command Pattern 11. The Observer Pattern 12. The State Pattern 13. Other Behavioral Patterns 14. The Observer Pattern in Reactive Programming 15. Microservices and Patterns for the Cloud 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementation

Let's see how we can use the builder design pattern to make a pizza-ordering application. The pizza example is particularly interesting because a pizza is prepared in steps that should follow a specific order. To add the sauce, you first need to prepare the dough. To add the topping, you first need to add the sauce. And you can't start baking the pizza unless both the sauce and the topping are placed on the dough. Moreover, each pizza usually requires a different baking time, depending on the thickness of its dough and the topping used.

We start by importing the required modules and declaring a few Enum parameters (j.mp/pytenum) plus a constant that is used many times in the application. The STEP_DELAY constant is used to add a time delay between the different steps of preparing a pizza (prepare the dough, add the sauce, and so on) as follows:

from enum...
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