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Python Programming with Design Patterns
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Python Programming with Design Patterns

by James W. Cooper
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
10h
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Template Pattern

Whenever you write a parent class in which you leave one or more of the methods to be implemented by derived classes, you are in essence using the Template pattern. The Template pattern formalizes the idea of defining an algorithm in a class but leaving some of the details to be implemented in subclasses. In other words, if your base class is an abstract class, as often happens in these design patterns, you are using a simple form of the Template pattern.

Why We Use Template patterns

Templates are so fundamental; you have probably used them dozens of times without even thinking about it. The idea behind the Template pattern is that some parts of an algorithm are well defined and can be implemented in the base class, ...

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