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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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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Combining many applications using the Command design pattern

Many complex suites of applications follow a design pattern similar to the one used by the Git program. There's a base command, git, with a number of subcommands. For example, git pull, git commit, and git push.

What's central to this design is the idea of a collection of individual commands. Each of the various features of git can be thought of as a separate class definition that performs a given function.

When we enter a command such as git pull, it's as if the program, git, is locating a class to implement the command.

How can we create families of closely related commands?

Getting ready

We'll imagine an application built from three commands...

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