April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
Content preview from Expert Python Programming - Third Edition
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Recipe
A recipe answers a very specific problem and provides a solution to resolve it. For example, ActiveState provides a huge repository of Python recipes online, where developers can describe how to do something in Python (refer to http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/). Such a set of recipes related to a single area/project is often called a cookbook.
These recipes must be short and are structured, like this:
- Title
- Submitter
- Last updated
- Version
- Category
- Description
- Source (the source code)
- Discussion (the text explaining the code)
- Comments (from the web)
Often, they are one screen long and do not go into great detail. This structure perfectly fits a software's needs and can be adapted in a generic structure, where the target ...