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Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from  Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814010
Pages 606 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
Profile icon Quan Nguyen

Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Python-Native and Specialized Optimization
2. Chapter 1: Benchmarking and Profiling 3. Chapter 2: Pure Python Optimizations 4. Chapter 3: Fast Array Operations with NumPy, Pandas, and Xarray 5. Chapter 4: C Performance with Cython 6. Chapter 5: Exploring Compilers 7. Chapter 6: Automatic Differentiation and Accelerated Linear Algebra for Machine Learning 8. Section 2: Concurrency and Parallelism
9. Chapter 7: Implementing Concurrency 10. Chapter 8: Parallel Processing 11. Chapter 9: Concurrent Web Requests 12. Chapter 10: Concurrent Image Processing 13. Chapter 11: Building Communication Channels with asyncio 14. Chapter 12: Deadlocks 15. Chapter 13: Starvation 16. Chapter 14: Race Conditions 17. Chapter 15: The Global Interpreter Lock 18. Section 3: Design Patterns in Python
19. Chapter 16: The Factory Pattern 20. Chapter 17: The Builder Pattern 21. Chapter 18: Other Creational Patterns 22. Chapter 19: The Adapter Pattern 23. Chapter 20: The Decorator Pattern 24. Chapter 21: The Bridge Pattern 25. Chapter 22: The Façade Pattern 26. Chapter 23: Other Structural Patterns 27. Chapter 24: The Chain of Responsibility Pattern 28. Chapter 25: The Command Pattern 29. Chapter 26: The Observer Pattern 30. Assessments 31. Other Books You May Enjoy

Real-world examples

The façade pattern is quite common in life. When you call a bank or a company, you are usually first connected to the customer service department. The customer service employee acts as a façade between you and the actual department (billing, technical support, general assistance, and so on), and the employee that will help you with your specific problem.

Another example is the key used to turn on a car or motorcycle, which can also be considered a façade. It is a simple way of activating a system that is very complex internally. And, of course, the same is true for other complex electronic devices that we can activate with a single button, such as computers.

In software, the django-oscar-datacash module is a Django third-party module that integrates with the DataCash payment gateway. The module has a gateway class that provides fine-grained access to the various DataCash APIs. On top of that, it also offers a façade class that provides...

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