Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Mastering Object-oriented Python

You're reading from   Mastering Object-oriented Python If you want to master object-oriented Python programming this book is a must-have. With 750 code samples and a relaxed tutorial, it's a seamless route to programming Python.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783280971
Length 634 pages
Edition Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
Author Profile Icon Steven F. Lott
Steven F. Lott
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Mastering Object-oriented Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Some Preliminaries
1. The __init__() Method FREE CHAPTER 2. Integrating Seamlessly with Python Basic Special Methods 3. Attribute Access, Properties, and Descriptors 4. The ABCs of Consistent Design 5. Using Callables and Contexts 6. Creating Containers and Collections 7. Creating Numbers 8. Decorators and Mixins – Cross-cutting Aspects 9. Serializing and Saving – JSON, YAML, Pickle, CSV, and XML 10. Storing and Retrieving Objects via Shelve 11. Storing and Retrieving Objects via SQLite 12. Transmitting and Sharing Objects 13. Configuration Files and Persistence 14. The Logging and Warning Modules 15. Designing for Testability 16. Coping With the Command Line 17. The Module and Package Design 18. Quality and Documentation Index

Designing a module


A module is the unit of the Python implementation and reuse. All Python programming is provided at the module level. The class is the foundation of object-oriented design and programming. The module—a collection of classes—is a higher-level grouping and is the unit of reuse in Python. We can't easily reuse a single class in isolation. A properly designed module can be reused.

A Python module is a file. The filename extension must be .py. The filename in front of .py must be a valid Python name. Section 2.3 of Python Language Reference provides us with the complete definition of a name. One of the clauses in this definition is: Within the ASCII range (U+0001..U+007F), the valid characters for identifiers are the uppercase and lowercase letters A through Z, the underscore _ and, except for the first character, the digits 0 through 9.

OS filenames permit more characters from the ASCII range than Python names; this extra OS complexity must be ignored. The filename (without ...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime