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Python is a dynamically typed, high-level interpreted programming language. Its design focuses on clear syntax, an intuitive approach to object-oriented programming, and making the right way to do things obvious. Python supports modules and exceptions, and has an extensive standard module library. Python is general-purpose and thus used widely, from the web to embedded systems.
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Is OOP really beneficial for enterprise-scale business software compared to procedural languages like ABAP or COBOL?
I'm currently drafting a Python coding standard for internal enterprise use, primarily targeting business applications that involve heavy data access, reporting, and transactional logic.
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Global State, How To Do IT?
im kind of a newbie so take me easy
i face a problem every time i make a project
specially Client projects, which is Global State i always struggle to do it
for example, here is the structure of one ...
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How to structuring a read/write submodule in OOP Python
I am developing a python package that needs to be able to read/write from/to multiple formats. E.g. foo format and bar format. I am trying to contain the functions relating to each format in a single ...
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Python: mapping the content of a structured text file to dictionary tree
I'm looking for a method to map the content of a structured text file to a nested dictionary (dictionary tree). The text file consists of (nested) sections with each section starting with the pattern ...
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Control flow and communication with two separate frontends (maybe with exceptions)?
I am trying to write a backend for use with a completely text based UI for one shot operations (eg. python scriptname arg, executes that argument and exits) and a GUI using the curses library for some ...
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How to manage working directory in interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm having trouble with managing the working directory in Jupyter Notebook. For example, I have a .py script that requires me to change the working directory to its directory to run it properly. I've ...
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How to implement a server application that can reload configuration without restart
I have a game server implemented in Python to which clients can connect and play against each other.
I'd like to be able to reload configuration from a config file without restarting the server (as ...
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In a python project, when should you use __init__.py, __main__.py, and just normal .py?
Say I am making a pdf editor app with the following structure:
├── main.py
├── 📂 drawing_functions/
├── 📂 util/
├── 📂 GUI/
└── 📂 document_handling/
Each of these folders have a collection of ...
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How to test for performance regression?
I am working on a refactor on a certain package (I can give details if asked). The package involves a clever lazy evaluation of a sort of nested sequence of arithmetic operations. If the numerical ...
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Best practice when declaring imports with different execution contexts in python?
Say I have a Python project that looks like this:
project/
├── package/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── module1.py
└── main.py
I would like package/ to be self-contained, though it is called from main.py....
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Why did Python designers decide not to declare vars? [closed]
In Python when you want a local variable, you just assign to it x = 10.
In most modern languages you declare local vars (regardless of type):
JavaScript: let/const/var
Swift: let/var
Kotlin: val/var
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Should an API client class be reusable?
For an API client I am working on, I was wondering, whether the main class should be reusable. This question basically boils down to: should the HTTP client be instantiated in __init__ or __enter__/...
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Simple packaging for multi-file/module Python deployments
I'm working on a Python codebase which we are trying to improve the modularity of. Both the top level scripts and the modules that they depend on are all in one main repo. We have another repo which ...
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Is it better practice to set default values for optional argparse arguments?
I mention python's argparse as an example but this would apply to any CLI argument parser library for any language. Just generally speaking, at a high level, if there are a lot of optional arguments ...
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Separation of concerns between business layer, data layer and presentation layer without losing information
I'm developing an api in Fast API using sqlalchemy to manage my ORM classes and operations with the database.
I'm dealing with some design decisions to have my classes as little coupled as possible ...
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