The Strategy Pattern Will Make Your Python Code CLEANER
If we have lots of different ways of doing the same thing, how do we best represent that in Python? If we want to take a payment, but want to change our payment processor on the fly, how do we write clean, idiomatic Python code without lots of conditional statements everywhere?
Introducing the strategy pattern!
Check out the code:
https://github.com/isaacharrisholt/yo...
Resources:
Strategy pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strateg...
Python Protocol PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
Go interfaces: https://go.dev/tour/methods/9
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:53 - What is the Strategy Pattern?
01:17 - Current code
02:20 - Refactor
03:42 - Adding a third data store
03:58 - But why bother?
04:26 - ABC comparison
05:03 - Single-method interfaces
06:22 - Outro
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