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Are there any design patterns that are unnecessary in dynamic languages like Python?
I've started reading the design pattern book by the GoF. Some patterns seem very similar with only minor conceptual differences.
Do you think out of the many patterns some are unnecessary in a ...
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Caching factory design
I have a factory class XFactory that creates objects of class X. Instances of X are very large, so the main purpose of the factory is to cache them, as transparently to the client code as possible. ...
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Changing __class__ in a factory?
I'm parsing a set of XML files of different kinds (these kinds are known in advance).
These are my requirements:
I want an object to represent each XML document (object-xml mapping)
I'd rather ...
