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Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398781
Pages 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dusty Phillips Dusty Phillips
Profile icon Dusty Phillips

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Python 3 Object-oriented Programming Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Introduction to the second edition
Preface
1. Object-oriented Design 2. Objects in Python 3. When Objects Are Alike 4. Expecting the Unexpected 5. When to Use Object-oriented Programming 6. Python Data Structures 7. Python Object-oriented Shortcuts 8. Strings and Serialization 9. The Iterator Pattern 10. Python Design Patterns I 11. Python Design Patterns II 12. Testing Object-oriented Programs 13. Concurrency Index

Modules and packages


Now, we know how to create classes and instantiate objects, but how do we organize them? For small programs, we can just put all our classes into one file and add a little script at the end of the file to start them interacting. However, as our projects grow, it can become difficult to find the one class that needs to be edited among the many classes we've defined. This is where modules come in. Modules are simply Python files, nothing more. The single file in our small program is a module. Two Python files are two modules. If we have two files in the same folder, we can load a class from one module for use in the other module.

For example, if we are building an e-commerce system, we will likely be storing a lot of data in a database. We can put all the classes and functions related to database access into a separate file (we'll call it something sensible: database.py). Then, our other modules (for example, customer models, product information, and inventory) can import...

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