Chapter 3. Syntax Best Practices – above the Class Level
We will now focus on syntax best practices for classes. It is not intended to cover design patterns here, as they will be discussed in Chapter 14, Useful Design Patterns. This chapter gives an overview of the advanced Python syntax to manipulate and enhance the class code.
Object model evolved greatly during history of Python 2. For a long time we lived in a world where two implementations of the object-oriented programming paradigm coexisted in the same language. These two models were simply referred to as old-style and new-style classes. Python 3 ended this dichotomy and only model known as new-style classes is available to the developers. Anyway, it is still important to know how both ...
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