Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread Ned Deily
Search for presentations and videos by Alex Martelli. He's the goto (so to speak) person on Python design patterns. Here, for instance: http://code.google.com/edu/languages/#_python_patterns -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread Terry Reedy
On 11/4/2011 8:46 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote: Well this book is work in progress Though not touched since May 2009 https://bitbucket.org/BruceEckel/python-3-patterns-idioms/src but it actually looks very interesting The slightly older .pdf version is a bit bizarre as parts of both text and

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread Andrea Crotti
On 11/04/2011 12:33 AM, Anthony Kong wrote: Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in 2003. I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if any) on the use of Design Pattern in python? I am doing some 'fact-finding' in this area on

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread Joe Riopel
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:28 AM, John Roth wrote: > The first is that if you use TDD (Test Driven Development) and > refactor relentlessly to remove duplication, most of the basic design > patterns will emerge naturally from the code as you work. I agree, and there is a pretty good series of artic

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread John Roth
On Nov 3, 6:33 pm, Anthony Kong wrote: > Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in > 2003. > > I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if > any) on the use of Design Pattern in python? > > I am doing some 'fact-finding' in this

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-04 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Am 04.11.2011 01:33, schrieb Anthony Kong: I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if any) on the use of Design Pattern in python? My consensus with myself is that design patterns are language-agnostic. If I write "class Foo serves as view and controller for

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-03 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Anthony Kong wrote: > Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in > 2003. > > I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if > any) on the use of Design Pattern in python? I can only speak for myself,

Re: Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-03 Thread Roy Smith
In article <6097694.446.1320366784098.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prap37>, Anthony Kong wrote: > Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in > 2003. What? We're bring it up again, SO SOON!? > I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or

Design Pattern and Python: Any book recommendation? Your view?

2011-11-03 Thread Anthony Kong
Sorry to resurrect this topic. By google search the last discussion was in 2003. I would like to find out what is the current prevailing view or consensus (if any) on the use of Design Pattern in python? I am doing some 'fact-finding' in this area on request of my colleagues. Some of them want