Pythonic design patterns

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

r.grimm at science-computing.de a écrit :
> Hallo,
>> users in this forum has been kind enough to point out. Only my
>> implementations are often not that clean, and I may call things
>> something different than the normal convention, which is a source of
>> confusion for myself and others trying to communicate with me.
> I think, you should start with the classical books of Design Patterns
> to get a solid understanding and especially vocabulary to communicate
> with your coworkers. Its easier and better to say, that you will use a
> strategy pattern than to describe the architecture in many sentences
> to your partner in a ambigious way.

Indeed. But now there's the risk that coworkers implement this as:

class AbstractFooStrategy(object):
    def run(self, yadda):
       raise NotImplementedError

class SimpleFooStrategy(AbstractFooStrategy):
    def run(self, yadda):
        # code here

class Bar(object):
     def __init__(self, foo_strategy):
         if not isinstance(foo_strategy,  AbstractFooStrategy):
             raise ValueError("yadda yadda")
         self.foo_strategy = foo_strategy
     def do_this(self, yadda):
         return self.foo_strategy.run(yadda)


b = Bar(SimpleFooStrategy())


instead of:

class Bar(object):
     def __init__(self, foo_strategy):
         self.foo_strategy = foo_strategy
     def do_this(self, yadda):
         return self.foo_strategy(yadda)


def baaz(yadda):
    # code here

b = Bar(baaz)


> Thats in my opinion the first and
> the key benefit of Design Patterns.

Totally agree - at least as long as coworkers clearly understand the 
difference between design and implementation.

> Speaking in the same language. The
> next step should be to apply your knowledge to your programming
> language.

Indeed !-)

> So I will recommend the classical GOF Books

<aol />

While most implementation example are way over the top in the context of 
a hi-level dynamic language like Python, the GOF is one of the best book 
on OO design I've ever read - if not the only that was worth reading 
(disclaimer : I didn't read much dead-tree stuff on OO).