Python-specific design patterns and best practices including protocols, dataclasses, context managers, decorators, async/await, type hints, and package organization. Use when working with Python code to apply Pythonic patterns.
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Use Protocol for structural subtyping (duck typing with type hints):
from typing import Protocol
class Repository(Protocol):
def find_by_id(self, id: str) -> dict | None: ...
def save(self, entity: dict) -> dict: ...
# Any class with these methods satisfies the protocol
class UserRepository:
def find_by_id(self, id: str) -> dict | None:
# implementation
pass
def save(self, entity: dict) -> dict:
# implementation
pass
def process_entity(repo: Repository, id: str) -> None:
entity = repo.find_by_id(id)
# ... processBenefits:
Use dataclass for data transfer objects and value objects:
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Optional
@dataclass
class CreateUserRequest:
name: str
email: str
age: Optional[int] = None
tags: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class User:
"""Immutable user entity"""
id: str
name: str
email: strFeatures:
__init__, __repr__, __eq__frozen=True for immutabilityfield() for complex defaultsUse context managers (with statement) for resource management:
from contextlib import contextmanager
from typing import Generator
@contextmanager
def database_transaction(db) -> Generator[None, None, None]:
"""Context manager for database transactions"""
try:
yield
db.commit()
except Exception:
db.rollback()
raise
# Usage
with database_transaction(db):
db.execute("INSERT INTO users ...")Class-based context manager:
class FileProcessor:
def __init__(self, filename: str):
self.filename = filename
self.file = None
def __enter__(self):
self.file = open(self.filename, 'r')
return self.file
def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
if self.file:
self.file.close()
return False # Don't suppress exceptionsUse generators for lazy evaluation and memory-efficient iteration:
def read_large_file(filename: str):
"""Generator for reading large files line by line"""
with open(filename, 'r') as f:
for line in f:
yield line.strip()
# Memory-efficient processing
for line in read_large_file('huge.txt'):
process(line)Generator expressions:
# Instead of list comprehension
squares = (x**2 for x in range(1000000)) # Lazy evaluation
# Pipeline pattern
numbers = (x for x in range(100))
evens = (x for x in numbers if x % 2 == 0)
squares = (x**2 for x in evens)from functools import wraps
import time
def timing(func):
"""Decorator to measure execution time"""
@wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
start = time.time()
result = func(*args, **kwargs)
end = time.time()
print(f"{func.__name__} took {end - start:.2f}s")
return result
return wrapper
@timing
def slow_function():
time.sleep(1)def singleton(cls):
"""Decorator to make a class a singleton"""
instances = {}
@wraps(cls)
def get_instance(*args, **kwargs):
if cls not in instances:
instances[cls] = cls(*args, **kwargs)
return instances[cls]
return get_instance
@singleton
class Config:
passimport asyncio
from typing import List
async def fetch_user(user_id: str) -> dict:
"""Async function for I/O-bound operations"""
await asyncio.sleep(0.1) # Simulate network call
return {"id": user_id, "name": "Alice"}
async def fetch_all_users(user_ids: List[str]) -> List[dict]:
"""Concurrent execution with asyncio.gather"""
tasks = [fetch_user(uid) for uid in user_ids]
return await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
# Run async code
asyncio.run(fetch_all_users(["1", "2", "3"]))class AsyncDatabase:
async def __aenter__(self):
await self.connect()
return self
async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
await self.disconnect()
async with AsyncDatabase() as db:
await db.query("SELECT * FROM users")from typing import TypeVar, Generic, Callable, ParamSpec, Concatenate
T = TypeVar('T')
P = ParamSpec('P')
class Repository(Generic[T]):
"""Generic repository pattern"""
def __init__(self, entity_type: type[T]):
self.entity_type = entity_type
def find_by_id(self, id: str) -> T | None:
# implementation
pass
# Type-safe decorator
def log_call(func: Callable[P, T]) -> Callable[P, T]:
@wraps(func)
def wrapper(*args: P.args, **kwargs: P.kwargs) -> T:
print(f"Calling {func.__name__}")
return func(*args, **kwargs)
return wrapperdef process(value: str | int | None) -> str:
match value:
case str():
return value.upper()
case int():
return str(value)
case None:
return "empty"class UserService:
def __init__(
self,
repository: Repository,
logger: Logger,
cache: Cache | None = None
):
self.repository = repository
self.logger = logger
self.cache = cache
def get_user(self, user_id: str) -> User | None:
if self.cache:
cached = self.cache.get(user_id)
if cached:
return cached
user = self.repository.find_by_id(user_id)
if user and self.cache:
self.cache.set(user_id, user)
return userproject/
├── src/
│ └── mypackage/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── domain/ # Business logic
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── models.py
│ ├── services/ # Application services
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── user_service.py
│ └── infrastructure/ # External dependencies
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── database.py
├── tests/
│ ├── unit/
│ └── integration/
├── pyproject.toml
└── README.md# __init__.py
from .models import User, Product
from .services import UserService
__all__ = ['User', 'Product', 'UserService']class DomainError(Exception):
"""Base exception for domain errors"""
pass
class UserNotFoundError(DomainError):
"""Raised when user is not found"""
def __init__(self, user_id: str):
self.user_id = user_id
super().__init__(f"User {user_id} not found")
class ValidationError(DomainError):
"""Raised when validation fails"""
def __init__(self, field: str, message: str):
self.field = field
self.message = message
super().__init__(f"{field}: {message}")try:
# Multiple operations
pass
except* ValueError as eg:
# Handle all ValueError instances
for exc in eg.exceptions:
print(f"ValueError: {exc}")
except* TypeError as eg:
# Handle all TypeError instances
for exc in eg.exceptions:
print(f"TypeError: {exc}")class User:
def __init__(self, name: str):
self._name = name
self._email = None
@property
def name(self) -> str:
"""Read-only property"""
return self._name
@property
def email(self) -> str | None:
return self._email
@email.setter
def email(self, value: str) -> None:
if '@' not in value:
raise ValueError("Invalid email")
self._email = valuefrom functools import reduce
from typing import Callable, TypeVar
T = TypeVar('T')
U = TypeVar('U')
def pipe(*functions: Callable) -> Callable:
"""Compose functions left to right"""
def inner(arg):
return reduce(lambda x, f: f(x), functions, arg)
return inner
# Usage
process = pipe(
str.strip,
str.lower,
lambda s: s.replace(' ', '_')
)
result = process(" Hello World ") # "hello_world"0c1d7be
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