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Software Architecture with Python

You're reading from   Software Architecture with Python Design and architect highly scalable, robust, clean, and high performance applications in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468529
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anand Balachandran Pillai Anand Balachandran Pillai
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Preface 1. Principles of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Modifiable and Readable Code 3. Testability – Writing Testable Code 4. Good Performance is Rewarding! 5. Writing Applications that Scale 6. Security – Writing Secure Code 7. Design Patterns in Python 8. Python – Architectural Patterns 9. Deploying Python Applications 10. Techniques for Debugging Index

Introducing MVC


Model View Controller or MVC is a well known and popular architectural pattern for building interactive applications. MVC splits the application into three components: the Model, the View, and the Controller.

Model-View-Controller (MVC) Architecture

The three components perform the following responsibilities:

  • Model: The model contains the core data and logic of the application.

  • View: The view(s) form the output of the application to the user. They display information to the user. Multiple views of the same data are possible.

  • Controller: The controller receives and processes user input such as keyboard clicks or mouse clicks/movements, and converts them into change requests for the model or the view.

Separation of concerns using these three components avoids tight coupling between the data of the application and its representation. It allows for multiple representations (views) of the same data (model), which can be computed and presented according to user input received via...

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