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Practical Python Programming for IoT

You're reading from  Practical Python Programming for IoT

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982461
Pages 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gary Smart Gary Smart

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Programming with Python and the Raspberry Pi
Setting Up your Development Environment Getting Started with Python and IoT Networking with RESTful APIs and Web Sockets Using Flask Networking with MQTT, Python, and the Mosquitto MQTT Broker Section 2: Practical Electronics for Interacting with the Physical World
Connecting Your Raspberry Pi to the Physical World Electronics 101 for the Software Engineer Section 3: IoT Playground - Practical Examples to Interact with the Physical World
Turning Things On and Off Lights, Indicators, and Displaying Information Measuring Temperature, Humidity, and Light Levels Movement with Servos, Motors, and Steppers Measuring Distance and Detecting Movement Advanced IoT Programming Concepts - Threads, AsyncIO, and Event Loops IoT Visualization and Automation Platforms Tying It All Together - An IoT Christmas Tree Assessments Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring a threaded approach

Now that we have explored an event-loop-based approach to creating our program, let's consider an alternative approach built using threads, callbacks, and OOP and see how this approach improves code readability and maintainability and promotes code reuse.

The code for the threaded-based approach can be found in the chapter12/version2_threads folder. You will find four files – the main program, main.py, and three class definitions: LED.py, BUTTON.py, and POT.py.

Please take the time now to stop and read through the code contained in main.py to get a basic understanding of how the program is structured and how it works. Then, proceed to review LED.py, BUTTON.py, and POT.py.

How did it go, and what did you notice? I'd guess that you found this version of the program (while reading through main.py) much quicker and easier to understand and noticed that there is no cumbersome and complex while loop, but instead a ...

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