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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook The latest in modern Python recipes for the busy modern programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469250
Length 692 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-in Data Structures – list, set, dict 5. User Inputs and Outputs 6. Basics of Classes and Objects 7. More Advanced Class Design 8. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 9. Testing 10. Web Services 11. Application Integration

Designing scripts for composition

Many large applications are actually amalgamations of multiple, smaller applications. In enterprise terminology, they are often called application systems comprising individual command-line application programs.

Some large, complex applications include a number of commands. For example, the Git application has numerous individual commands, such as git pull, git commit, and git push. These can also be seen as separate applications that are part of the overall Git system of applications.

An application might start as a collection of separate Python script files. At some point during its evolution, it can become necessary to refactor the scripts to combine features and create new, composite scripts from older disjoint scripts. The other path is also possible, a large application might be decomposed and refactored into a new organization...

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