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Advanced Python Programming

You're reading from   Advanced Python Programming Build high performance, concurrent, and multi-threaded apps with Python using proven design patterns

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Product type Course
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551216
Length 672 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
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Sakis Kasampalis Sakis Kasampalis
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Dr. Gabriele Lanaro Dr. Gabriele Lanaro
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Table of Contents (41) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Benchmarking and Profiling FREE CHAPTER Pure Python Optimizations Fast Array Operations with NumPy and Pandas C Performance with Cython Exploring Compilers Implementing Concurrency Parallel Processing Advanced Introduction to Concurrent and Parallel Programming Amdahl's Law Working with Threads in Python Using the with Statement in Threads Concurrent Web Requests Working with Processes in Python Reduction Operators in Processes Concurrent Image Processing Introduction to Asynchronous Programming Implementing Asynchronous Programming in Python Building Communication Channels with asyncio Deadlocks Starvation Race Conditions The Global Interpreter Lock The Factory Pattern The Builder Pattern Other Creational Patterns The Adapter Pattern The Decorator Pattern The Bridge Pattern The Facade Pattern Other Structural Patterns The Chain of Responsibility Pattern The Command Pattern The Observer Pattern 1. Appendix 2. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Implementation


Let's look at a relatively simple application to illustrate adaptation: a club's activities, mainly the need to organize performances and events for the entertainment of its clients, by hiring talented artists.

At the core, we have a Club class that represents the club where hired artists perform some evenings. The organize_performance() method is the main action that the club can perform. The code is as follows:

class Club: 
    def __init__(self, name): 
        self.name = name 

    def __str__(self): 
        return f'the club {self.name}' 

    def organize_event(self): 
        return 'hires an artist to perform for the people' 

Most of the time, our club hires a DJ to perform, but our application addresses the need to organize a diversity of performances, by a musician or music band, by a dancer, a one-man or one-woman show, and so on.

 

Via our research to try and reuse existing code, we find an open source contributed library that brings us two interesting classes: Musician...

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