Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Preface

Ultimately, the purpose of this book is to illustrate pragmatic software engineering principles and how they can be applied to Python development. To that end, most of this book is dedicated to exploring and implementing what I'd consider to be a realistically scoped, but probably unrealistic project: a distributed product-management and order-fulfillment system. In many cases, the functionality is developed from scratch, and from first principles—the fundamental concepts and assumptions that lie at the foundation of the system. In a real-world scenario, the odds are good that ready-made solutions would be available to deal with many of the implementation details, but exposing the underlying theories and requirements is, I think, ...