Python in Practice by Mark Summerfield

ISBN: 978-0321905635

Copyright © 2012-13 Qtrac Ltd.

All the example programs and modules are copyright © Qtrac Ltd. 2012-13. They are free software: you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. They are provided for educational purposes and are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licenses (in file gpl-3.0.txt) for more details.

All the book's examples are designed to be educational, and many are also designed to be useful. I hope that you find them helpful, and are perhaps able to use some of them as starting points for your own projects.

Most of the icons are from Debian (e.g., GNOME, Tango, and Oxygen) and so are open source licensed. (Visit http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnome.org/ http://tango.freedesktop.org/ and http://www.oxygen-icons.org/ for more information.)

Here is the list of programs referred to in the book grouped by chapter. Dependencies on third-party packages are listed in []s with URLs at the end. All the examples work with Python 3.3+ and many with 3.2 and 3.1.

Chapter 1: Creational Design Patterns

Abstract Factory: diagram1.py diagram2.py

Builder: formbuilder.py

Factory Method: gameboard1.py gameboard2.py gameboard3.py gameboard4.py

Chapter 2: Structural Design Patterns

Adaptor: render1.py render2.py

Bridge: barchart1.py barchart2.py barchart3.py

Composite: stationery1.py stationery2.py

Decorator: validate1.py validate2.py mediator1d.py mediator2d.py

Facade: Unpack.py

Flyweight: pointstore1.py pointstore2.py

Proxy: imageproxy1.py imageproxy2.py

Singleton: Session.py

Chapter 3: Behavioral Design Patterns

Chain of Responsibility: eventhandler1.py eventhandler2.py

Command: grid.py Command.py

Interpreter: genome1.py genome2.py genome3.py

Iterator: Bag1.py Bag2.py Bag3.py

Mediator: mediator1.py mediator2.py

Memento (use pickle or json)

Observer: observer1.py observer2.py

State: multiplexer1.py multiplexer2.py

Strategy: tabulator1.py tabulator2.py tabulator3.py tabulator4.py

Template Method: wordcount1.py wordcount2.py

Visitor (use map() or list comprehensions or a for loop)

Case Study: Image/

Chapter 4: High-Level Concurrency

imagescale-s.py imagescale-t.py imagescale-q-m.py imagescale-m.py

imagescale-c.py

whatsnew.py whatsnew-t.py whatsnew-q.py whatsnew-m.py whatsnew-q-m.py

whatsnew-c.py Feed.py

[Recommends feedparser and lxml]

Case Study: imagescale/ [Recommends Cython; numpy]

Chapter 5: Extending Python [Only tested on Linux; should work cross-platform]

Hyphenate1.py

Hyphenate2/ [Requires Cython and libhyphen]

benchmark_Scale.py Scale/Fast.pyx [Requires Cython; numpy]

Case Study: cyImage/ benchmark_Image.py imagescale-s.py

imagescale-cy.py imagescale.py [Requires Cython; numpy]

Chapter 6: High-Level Networking

Meter.py MeterMT.py

meterclient-rpc.py meterserver-rpc.py meter-rpc.pyw

meterclient-rpyc.py meterserver-rpyc.py meter-rpyc.pyw [Requires rpyc]

Chapter 7: Creating GUIs with Tkinter

hello.pyw

TkUtil/

currency/

gravitate/

gravitate2/

texteditor/

texteditor2/

Chapter 8: Openg GL 3D Graphics

cylinder1.pyw

cylinder2.pyw

gravitate3d.pyw

Many chapters also require:

Qtrac.py

Image/

cyImage/

Third-party packages:

Modern package managers:

(1) Grab the file: http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py

(2) In a console execute:

  $ python distribute_setup.py

  $ easy_install pip

  Note you may have to give a path on windows, e.g.,

  C:\> c:\python33\python c:\Users\<Username>\Downloads\distribute_setup.py

  C:\> c:\python33\scripts\easy_install pip

See: http://pythonhosted.org/distribute/

Cython http://cython.org

feedparser http://pypi.python.org/pypi/feedparser

lxml http://lxml.de

numpy http://numpy.scipy.org

pyglet http://www.pyglet.org

PyOpenGL http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net

pypng http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypng

regex http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex

rpyc http://rpyc.sourceforge.net