A design pattern is a reusable, somewhat language-specific solution to a common problem in software design. The most popular book on this topic is Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley Professional, written by Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, and Richard Helm, also known as the Gang of Four (GoF). It is considered a major writing in this area and provides a catalog of 23 design patterns with examples in Smalltalk and C++.
While designing an application's code, these patterns help solve common problems. They ring a bell to all developers, since they describe proven development paradigms. But they should be studied with the used language in mind, since some of them do not make sense in some languages or are already built in.
This chapter describes the most useful patterns in Python, and patterns that...
