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Exercises in Programming Style
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Exercises in Programming Style

by Cristina Videira Lopes
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 23m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 13

Abstract Things

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13.1 Constraints

  • The larger problem is decomposed into abstract things that make sense for the problem domain.
  • Each abstract thing is described by what operations the things of that abstraction can eventually do.
  • Concrete things are then bound, somehow, to the abstractions; mechanisms for doing that vary.
  • The rest of the application uses the things not by what they are but by what they do in the abstract.

13.2 A Program in this Style

  1 #!/usr/bin/env python
  2 import abc, sys, re, operator, string
  3
  4 #
  5 # The abstract things
  6 #
  7 class IDataStorage (object):
  8 """ Models the contents of the file """
  9 __metaclass__ ...
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ISBN: 9781482227376