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A Design Pattern for a component which both writes to and reads from an ordered event log
I am searching for a good design for a set of components I am writing for a system. I believe it is very likely there is a Design Pattern, or set of Design Patterns, which could be combined to solve ...
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Dynamic web application hitting database on front page load to fetch profile image
Folks, I am in middle of writing a web application (Python/Flask) where home page has user profile image in the navbar which is coming from a database (blob), I am wondering if this is a good practice....
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Is this architecture overkill? What is a good way to architect this software?
I have an algorithm I am trying to implement that has steps 1 to 5. There are several different ways I could implement each step. Each calculation step is essentially just an astronomy calculation, ...
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How do I structure my functions (and classes?) which interact with my Database/ORM?
So I am working on my first project using SQLite and SQLModel as ORM. Creating and handling the first table in my database was easily structured: A function for each CRUD-Operation. But now I have ...
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Design patterns for long chains of computations in python (functions vs classes?)
A recurring pattern which I see in my code is chaining together a lot of functions. This is the result of a large number of processing steps needed for a given task. This could be e.g. a data ...
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How do we nest decorators?
It is possible to nest many decorators. @decorator_one @decorator_two @decorator_three @decorator_four def some_silly_function(): pass How do we write a decorator class so that the order in which ...
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Storing multiple instances on a Singleton?
RefactoringGuru's example Singleton in Python has an _instances dictionary field class Singleton(type): _instances = {} def __call__(cls, *args, **kwargs): if cls not in cls....
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How can I use builders for products with incompatible interfaces?
I am working on a program to automatically design heater units based on varying client specifications. The process for creating each heater is quite involved and requires multiple optional steps ...
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What is an apporpriate design pattern when dealing with Pandas and databases?
We're dealing with a lot of "data analysis", basically different sorts of data mangling, aggregations and calculations using Pandas. Usually, the data is time series data. All underlying ...
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Python Typechecking versus TypedDicts?
From what I understand from this answer, it is not possible to use a typeddict and typechecking in a function. So for example, if one has a function: def some_func(some_int: int, some_dict:...
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Multiple models/controllers python app
I am trying to tinker with the MVC pattern and I have a problem when trying to design the MVC structure. I need a model for products, however as I need to manage more and different data, I can help ...
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Return type specification if a Python function output type, is dependent on the input arguments of that function?
Context Suppose one has a list of algorithms, which each have a multiple run/parameter configurations. Next, one wrote a generic function def get_mdsa_configs(self) -> List[MDSA_config]: that ...
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Design Pattern: How to handle changing format of text file?
I have a text file which is evolving and thus, difficult to manage. Hence, I am going to rewrite the code from scratch. Since, only few parts of the txt file change with a newer version, from the ...
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Where to create repository instances?
I've several repositories. To make them testable, I add the ORM session in the constructor. class Repository: def __init__(session): self.session = session def save(object): self.session()...
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The notion of configurable strategies
I'm designing an algorithm that matches entries based on some notion of "proximity" (for the sake of discussion, assume we're matching floats). Furthermore: The input is a scalar and a ...
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