[Tutor] Fwd: Re: Tips

[Mark Lawrence]

On 21/06/2014 18:23, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 21/06/14 01:45, Alex Kleider wrote:
>
>> The only applicability that fits in with anything I've experienced has
>> to do with the necessity of globals to represent command line parameters
>
> That's not a necessity and I hardly ever do that... :-)
> But it is one pattern for handling CL args.
>
> Other common patterns are for state machines.
> That's where a system responds to events differently depending
> on what events have already been seen.
>
> Another is GUIs where the most common pattern is known as
> Model-View-Controller. The implementation of MVC varies
> greatly between languages, toolkits and technologies
> (Web v Desktop, say) But they all use MVC as the pattern.
>
> There are many others especially in the Smalltalk and Java
> communities where the nature of the languages as well as
> their community culture tend to restrict the solution
> choices somewhat (although each in very different ways).
>
> There are various pattern web sites. Wikipedia is a good
> starting point:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_design_pattern
>

Try adding Alex Martelli when looking for anything about Python 
patterns.  He's one of those people who've forgotten more about Python 
than I've ever learned, the @#$%^&* :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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