[Baypiggies] Are there any good examples of implementing dependency inversion in Python?

[Alex Martelli]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Mahmoud Hashemi <mahmoud at hatnote.com>
wrote:

> It was my impression that inversion and injection were really closely
> related, based on
>

As I said, related, but not the same thing. Dependency injection, as
covered in my talk, has uses quite apart from inversion of control -- the
example my talk best covers is how to make a scheduler that can cleanly be
unit-tested and/or integrated with some event loop. Mocking (e.g
unittest.mock.patch) can often, so to speak, force a dependency injection
to test code that's not designed with DI in mind -- but, as usual,
"explicit is better than implicit" (clearer and, so to speak, `sharper`)...
and you probably wouldn't want to use such patching outside of a unit-test
(though I did once use it to most-simply graft a `-n` mode [as in `make
-n`] onto an existing utility -- "display all commands you'd execute but
don't execute them"... Michael Foord was quite amused when I challenged him
to come up with a good non-unit-test use of his unittest.mock code, then
revealed that one!-).


Alex


> various Fowler talks, including this canonical essay:
> https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html
>
> My main takeaway has always been, pass the low-level implementation _into_
> the higher level construct, instead of expecting the higher-level wrapper
> to create it for you. This is especially visible in Twisted's
> Protocol-based approach, now visible in asyncio, and more broadly all the
> sans-io libraries: http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/
>
> For a very basic example, consider this JSONLines (jsonlines.org)
> iterator: http://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/jsonutils.html
>
> Rather than doing JSONLIterator('target.jsonl') directly, one would do
> JSONLIterator(open('target.jsonl')), passing in the open file object (or
> any file-like object). Hope that makes sense!
>
> Mahmoud
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 3:54 PM, Alex Martelli via Baypiggies <
> baypiggies at python.org> wrote:
>
>> I see you're getting answers on dependency *injection* (on which I would
>> suggest my talk, slides at http://www.aleax.it/yt_pydi.pdf --
>> unfortunately I don't know of a video recording of said talk) while you
>> asked about dependency *inversion* (related, but definitely not the same
>> thing), for which I don't know of much that's published apart from what a
>> search will easily find, such as https://www.lynda.com/Progr
>> amming-Languages-tutorials/Introduction-dependency-
>> inversion/471978/502206-4.html .
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Looking for some good examples of Dependency Inversion in Python.
>>> Anyone have any suggestions for sites to look at?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
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