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Functional Python Programming

Functional Python Programming

By : Steven F. Lott
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Functional Python Programming

Functional Python Programming

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By: Steven F. Lott

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This book is for developers who want to use Python to write programs that lean heavily on functional programming design patterns. You should be comfortable with Python programming, but no knowledge of functional programming paradigms is needed.
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Cross-cutting concerns


One general principle behind decorators is to allow us to build a composite function from the decorator and the original function to which the decorator is applied. The idea is to have a library of common decorators that can provide implementations for common concerns.

We often call these cross-cutting concerns because they apply across several functions. These are the sorts of things that we would like to design once via a decorator and have them applied in relevant classes throughout an application or a framework.

Concerns that are often centralized as described previously include the following:

  • Logging

  • Auditing

  • Security

  • Handling incomplete data

A logging decorator, for example, might write standardized messages to the application's logfile. An audit decorator might write details surrounding a database update. A security decorator might check some runtime context to be sure that the login user has the necessary permissions.

Our example of a null-aware wrapper for a function...

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