This is a retroactive blog post. This post was authored in February 2022, using material authored in July 2020.
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In some prior blog posts, we've covered a few patterns that we use for software development, including:
Automatically generating requirements.txt files with pinned versions for Python projects, which covered a Makefile rule …
In this post we cover a strategy for managing configurations for programs using
a Singleton pattern to create a static Config class.
This allows the user to create an instance of the Config class, pointing it
to a specific config file, which it loads into memory.
The Config class provides several static methods for accessing configuration
options from the config file. Here's an example of its usage:
Config('/path/to/config.json')
if Config.get_foo() == "bar":
do …This post is a summary of a useful Python programming pattern called the Registry pattern.
The Registry pattern is a way of keeping track of all subclasses of a given class.
More details about this pattern are available at https://github.com/faif/python-patterns.