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Learning Python Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Python Application Development Take Python beyond scripting to build robust, reusable, and efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889196
Length 454 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ninad Sathaye Ninad Sathaye
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing Simple Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Dealing with Exceptions 3. Modularize, Package, Deploy! 4. Documentation and Best Practices 5. Unit Testing and Refactoring 6. Design Patterns 7. Performance – Identifying Bottlenecks 8. Improving Performance – Part One 9. Improving Performance – Part Two, NumPy and Parallelization 10. Simple GUI Applications Index

Why test?

Did you play the game developed so far? If not, just try playing it once. During the combat with the enemy, the following can be observed. For each attack, either Sir Foo or the enemy sustains injuries. This is indicated by the reduced hit points. For example, in the sample game output shown next, Sir Foo gets hit in the first attack turn, whereas the enemy is injured in the next two attack turns.

Why test?

A new feature was requested

A user requested an enhancement to the combat scenario:

"During combat, the program asks whether you want to continue attacking the enemy. In each attack move, one of the warriors, the player or the enemy, gets injured. Can you make it more interesting? What if both the warriors escape unhurt sometimes?"

A new feature was requested

It will benefit you as well Sir Foo! We will go ahead and implement this minor enhancement. Despite Sir Foo's stiff opposition, you rushed to implement this new feature.

You implemented this feature

Recall that the gameutils.weighted_random_selection...

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