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Expert Python Programming

You're reading from   Expert Python Programming Write professional, efficient and maintainable code in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785886850
Length 536 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Michał Jaworski Michał Jaworski
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Preface 1. Current Status of Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Syntax Best Practices – below the Class Level 3. Syntax Best Practices – above the Class Level 4. Choosing Good Names 5. Writing a Package 6. Deploying Code 7. Python Extensions in Other Languages 8. Managing Code 9. Documenting Your Project 10. Test-Driven Development 11. Optimization – General Principles and Profiling Techniques 12. Optimization – Some Powerful Techniques 13. Concurrency 14. Useful Design Patterns Index

Structural patterns

Structural patterns are really important in big applications. They decide how the code is organized and give developers recipes on how to interact with each part of the application.

For a long time, the most well-known implementation of many structural patterns in the Python world provided the Zope project with its Zope Component Architecture (ZCA). It implements most of the patterns described in this section and provides a rich set of tools to work with them. The ZCA is intended to run not only in the Zope framework, but also in other frameworks such as Twisted. It provides an implementation of interfaces and adapters among other things.

Unfortunately (or not), Zope lost almost all of its momentum and is not as popular as it used to be. But its ZCA may still be a good reference on implementing structural patterns in Python. Baiju Muthukadan created A Comprehensive Guide to Zope Component Architecture. It is available both in print and freely online (refer to http://muthukadan...

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