Exercises in Programming Style

Chapter 10

Things

10.1 Constraints

• The larger problem is decomposed into things that make sense for the problem domain.
• Each thing is a capsule of data that exposes procedures to the rest of the world.
• Data is never accessed directly, only through these procedures.
• Capsules can reappropriate procedures defined in other capsules.

10.2 A Program in this Style

  1 #!/usr/bin/env python
  2 import sys, re, operator, string
  3 from abc import ABCMeta
  4
  5 #
  6 # The classes
  7 #
  8 class TFExercise():
  9 __metaclass__ = ABCMeta
 10
 11 def info(self):
 12  return self.__class__.__name__
 13
 14 class DataStorageManager(TFExercise):
 15 """ Models the contents ...