Modular Programming with Python by Erik Westra

Key Features

• The publication may assist you increase succinct, expressive courses utilizing modular deign
• The booklet could clarify most sensible practices and customary idioms via rigorously defined and established examples
• It may have extensive charm so far as audience is worried and there will be remove for all newbies to Python

Book Description

Python has developed through the years and has develop into the first collection of builders in a variety of fields. the aim of this booklet is to assist readers improve readable, trustworthy, and maintainable courses in Python.

Starting with an advent to the idea that of modules and programs, this e-book indicates how one can use those development blocks to prepare a posh application into logical elements and ensure these elements are operating competently together.

Using basically written, real-world examples, this booklet demonstrates how one can use modular options to construct higher courses. a couple of universal modular programming styles are coated, together with divide-and-conquer, abstraction, encapsulation, wrappers and extensibility. additionally, you will how one can attempt your modules and programs, tips on how to arrange your code for sharing with other folks, and the way to submit your modules and applications on GitHub and the Python package deal Index in order that other folks can use them. eventually, you are going to how one can use modular layout strategies to be a greater programmer.

What you are going to learn

• Learn the best way to use modules and programs to prepare your Python code
• Understand how you can use the import assertion to load modules and programs into your program
• Use universal module styles corresponding to abstraction and encapsulation to jot down greater programs
• Discover find out how to create self-testing Python packages
• Create reusable modules that different programmers can use
• Learn find out how to use GitHub and the Python package deal Index to percentage your code with different people
• Make use of modules and applications that others have written
• Use modular recommendations to construct strong structures that may deal with complexity and altering specifications over time

About the Author

Erik Westra has been a qualified software program developer for over 25 years, and has labored virtually completely in Python for the prior decade. Erik's early curiosity in graphical consumer interface layout resulted in the improvement of 1 of the main complex pressing courier dispatch platforms utilized by messenger and courier businesses all over the world. in recent times, Erik has been keen on the layout and implementation of structures matching seekers and services of products and prone throughout quite a number geographical parts, in addition to real-time messaging and funds platforms. This paintings has integrated the construction of real-time geocoders and map-based perspectives of continually altering facts. Erik relies in New Zealand, and works for firms worldwide.

Erik is additionally the writer of the Packt titles Python Geospatial improvement, Python Geospatial research, and construction Mapping functions with QGIS.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Modular Programming
2. Writing Your First Modular Program
3. Using Modules and Packages
4. Using Modules for Real-World Programming
5. Working with Module Patterns
6. Creating Reusable Modules
7. Advanced Module Techniques
8. Testing and Deploying Modules
9. Modular Programming as a starting place for solid Programming Technique