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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

By : Kamon Ayeva, Kasampalis, Sakis Kasampalis
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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

4.3 (8)
By: Kamon Ayeva, Kasampalis, Sakis Kasampalis

Overview of this book

As software systems become increasingly complex, maintaining code quality, scalability, and efficiency can be a daunting challenge. Mastering Python Design Patterns is an essential resource that equips you with the tools you need to overcome these hurdles and create robust, scalable applications. The book delves into design principles and patterns in Python, covering both classic and modern patterns, and apply them to solve daily challenges as a Python developer or architect. Co-authored by two Python experts with a combined experience of three decades, this new edition covers creational, structural, behavioral, and architectural patterns, including concurrency, asynchronous, and performance patterns. You'll find out how these patterns are relevant to various domains, such as event handling, concurrency, distributed systems, and testing. Whether you're working on user interfaces (UIs), web apps, APIs, data pipelines, or AI models, this book equips you with the knowledge to build robust and maintainable software. The book also presents Python anti-patterns, helping you avoid common pitfalls and ensuring your code remains clean and efficient. By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently apply classic and modern Python design patterns to build robust, scalable applications.
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Part 1: Start with Principles
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Part 2: From the Gang of Four
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Part 3: Beyond the Gang of Four

The Chain of Responsibility pattern

The Chain of Responsibility pattern offers an elegant way to handle requests by passing them through a chain of handlers. Each handler in the chain has the autonomy to decide whether it can process the request or if it should delegate it further along the chain. This pattern shines when dealing with operations that involve multiple handlers but don’t necessarily require all of them to be involved.

In practice, this pattern encourages us to focus on objects and the flow of a request within an application. Notably, the client code remains blissfully unaware of the entire chain of handlers. Instead, it only interacts with the first processing element in the chain. Similarly, each processing element knows only about its immediate successor, forming a one-way relationship similar to a singly linked list. This structure is purposefully designed to achieve decoupling between the sender (client) and the receivers (processing elements).

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