On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Anthony Kong <anthony.hw.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in > 2003. > > I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if > any) on the use of Design Pattern in python?
I can only speak for myself, but the whole idea of design patterns is broken. The existence of nontrivial design patterns indicates language deficiencies. For more extensive corroborating discussions, see: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/06/are-design-patterns-how-languages-evolve.html http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatures Python thankfully has relatively few/minor deficiencies (so long as one judges it within its dynamic language niche), so design patterns per se aren't too relevant to it. The canonical Python-specific design pattern is Borg (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/66531-singleton-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-singleton-the-bo/ ) [a variation on Singleton], and nowadays it (like its parent, Singleton) is considered to be of dubious utility/advisability. > I am doing some 'fact-finding' in this area on request of my colleagues. Some > of them want to buy a book or two in this subject area. Hopefully the > newsgroup can give me some book recommendation and insight in this topic. The closest alternative would be some publication that gave examples of using some of Python's fancier, higher-level features, such as metaclasses and context managers. I haven't been in the market for such a book, so I have no good recommendations to give. Closest I could suggest would be the Language Reference (http://docs.python.org/reference/ ) and relevant PEPs (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ ; they tend to include examples by way of motivating use-cases). > I myself pretty much subscribe to the view that the nature of python language > actually do away much of the need of the use of DP, but it is just a personal > view. It comes form my experience of migrating from webware4py (webframework > based on J2EE/servlet idea) to cherrypy I am glad you agree. Cheers, Chris -- http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
