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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

Back to the game – Attack of the Orcs v1.1.0

With this knowledge of the exception handling, let's work on the next incremental version of the application.

Preparatory work

Before writing any code, let's first understand how the rest of the section is organized. In a nutshell, we will start with v1.0.0 of the code from Chapter 1, Developing Simple Applications, progressively add the exception handling code, and call the new version v1.1.0.

Note

The Python files in the supporting code bundle already include the exception handling code to be discussed in this section as well as in a later section of this chapter, Defining custom exceptions

The following points elaborate further details:

  • We will start by downloading the v1.0.0 of the game from Chapter 1, Developing Simple Applications. The file name is ch01_ex03_AbstractBaseClass.py (recall that this was provided as a solution to an exercise in Chapter 1, Developing Simple Applications). You can find this file in this chapter&apos...
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