🐍 Advanced Python Development Techniques

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║   🎯 Decorators  |  ⚡ Generators  |  🔮 Metaprogramming     ║
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║   🧪 Unit Testing  |  🎨 Design Patterns  |  🚀 Best Practices║
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Master the art of advanced Python programming with hands-on examples

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📚 Table of Contents

• Overview
• Project Structure
• Topics Covered
  • Decorators
  • Generators
  • Metaprogramming
  • Unit Testing
• Environment Setup
• Installation
• Usage
• Learning Outcomes
• Resources

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🎓 Overview

This repository contains a comprehensive collection of advanced Python programming techniques learned through hands-on practice and real-world applications. The project demonstrates mastery of Python's powerful features that separate intermediate developers from advanced practitioners.

🌟 What Makes This Advanced?

• Functional Programming Paradigms - Leveraging decorators and higher-order functions
• Memory Optimization - Using generators for efficient data processing
• Dynamic Code Generation - Metaprogramming with metaclasses and the type() function
• Test-Driven Development - Building production-ready applications with comprehensive test coverage

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📁 Project Structure

Advanced-Python/
│
├── 📄 README.md                    # This file
├── 📄 LICENSE                      # MIT License
│
└── src/
    ├── 🎨 decorator/               # Decorator patterns and applications
    │   ├── decorator_timer_demo.py       # Performance timing decorator
    │   ├── decorator_cache_demo.py       # Memoization/caching decorator
    │   ├── decorator_logging_demo.py     # Logging decorator
    │   ├── decorator_demo.md             # Comprehensive decorator guide
    │   └── test.py                       # Decorator tests
    │
    ├── ⚡ generator/                # Generator functions
    │   └── generator.py                  # Generator examples
    │
    ├── 🔮 metaprogramming/          # Metaclasses and dynamic programming
    │   └── metaprogramming_demo.py       # Dynamic class creation
    │
    └── 🧪 unit_test/                # Test-Driven Development
        └── demo/                         # Flask blog application
            ├── app.py                    # Flask API endpoints
            ├── requirements.txt          # Python dependencies
            ├── tests/                    # Comprehensive test suite
            │   ├── conftest.py          # pytest fixtures
            │   └── test_app.py          # Integration tests
            ├── templates/               # HTML templates
            └── static/                  # JavaScript and CSS

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🎯 Topics Covered

🎨 Decorators

Decorators are one of Python's most powerful features, allowing you to modify or enhance functions without changing their code. This section explores practical decorator applications:

📊 Timer Decorator

Measure function execution time for performance optimization:

@timer
def matrix_multiply(a, b):
    return np.array(a) @ np.array(b)

# Output: Function matrix_multiply took 0.000123s to execute.

💾 Cache Decorator

Implement memoization to speed up expensive computations:

@cache
def fibonacci(n):
    if n < 2:
        return n
    return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2)

📝 Logging Decorator

Automatically log function calls and arguments for debugging:

@log_function
def process_user_data(user_id, data):
    # Processing logic here
    pass

Key Concepts:

• *args and **kwargs for flexible function signatures
• Wrapper functions and closures
• Function metadata preservation with functools.wraps
• Practical applications in real-world projects

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⚡ Generators

Generators enable memory-efficient iteration over large datasets by yielding items one at a time instead of loading everything into memory.

Benefits:

• 🚀 Memory Efficient - Process large files without loading entire content
• ⏱️ Lazy Evaluation - Compute values only when needed
• ♾️ Infinite Sequences - Generate unlimited data streams

Use Cases:

• Processing large CSV files
• Reading log files line by line
• Creating data pipelines
• Implementing custom iterators

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🔮 Metaprogramming

Metaprogramming is "code that writes code" - enabling dynamic class and function creation at runtime.

Dynamic Class Creation

Create user classes dynamically based on runtime requirements:

def create_user_class(class_name, attributes):
    """Dynamically generates user classes with specified attributes."""
    # Implementation uses type() to create classes on the fly
    return type(class_name, (object,), class_attrs)

# Create different user types dynamically
BasicUser = create_user_class("BasicUser", ["username", "email"])
PremiumUser = create_user_class("PremiumUser", ["username", "email", "subscription_level"])

Applications:

• 🏗️ Building flexible frameworks
• 🔧 Creating Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)
• 🤖 Automating repetitive class definitions
• 🎭 Implementing design patterns (Factory, Builder)

Key Concepts:

• The type() function as a class factory
• Metaclasses and __new__ method
• Dynamic attribute assignment with setattr
• Runtime code generation

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🧪 Unit Testing (TDD)

Built a complete Flask blog application using Test-Driven Development principles. This hands-on project demonstrates production-ready testing practices.

🎯 Project: Intelligent Blog Application

A full-stack web application built using TDD methodology:

Features:

• ✅ RESTful API with Flask
• ✅ Create and retrieve blog posts
• ✅ JSON data validation
• ✅ Comprehensive test coverage
• ✅ Beautiful responsive UI
• ✅ Error handling and status codes

Tech Stack:

• Backend: Flask 3.0.0
• Testing: pytest 7.4.3, pytest-mock
• Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (Fetch API)

Test Coverage

The project includes 5 comprehensive integration tests:

1. ✅ test_posts_initialized_as_empty_list - Verify initial state
2. ✅ test_get_posts - Test GET endpoint returns empty list
3. ✅ test_create_post - Test successful post creation
4. ✅ test_create_post_invalid_data - Test validation and error handling
5. ✅ test_create_post_mock_posts - Test with mocked dependencies

API Endpoints

GET  /          # Render home page
GET  /posts     # Get all blog posts (JSON)
POST /posts     # Create new blog post (JSON)

Example Request:

curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/posts \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title": "My First Post", "content": "Hello World!"}'

Response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "My First Post",
  "content": "Hello World!"
}

TDD Workflow Demonstrated

1. 🔴 Red - Write failing tests first
2. 🟢 Green - Write minimum code to pass tests
3. 🔵 Refactor - Improve code while maintaining test coverage

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🛠️ Environment Setup

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.10+ (Download)
• pip (Python package manager)
• virtualenv (recommended for isolated environments)

Quick Start

# Check Python version
python --version  # Should be 3.10 or higher

# Verify pip installation
pip --version

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💻 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

cd ~/Documents
git clone <repository-url>
cd Advanced-Python-Development-Techniques/Advanced-Python

2️⃣ Create Virtual Environment

Creating a virtual environment keeps your project dependencies isolated:

# Create virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# Activate virtual environment
# On macOS/Linux:
source venv/bin/activate

# On Windows:
venv\Scripts\activate

You should see (venv) prefix in your terminal.

3️⃣ Install Dependencies

Install required packages for different modules:

For Decorator Examples:

pip install numpy

For Unit Testing / Flask Blog:

cd src/unit_test/demo
pip install -r requirements.txt

This installs:

• Flask 3.0.0 - Web framework
• pytest 7.4.3 - Testing framework
• pytest-mock - Mocking utilities
• Werkzeug 3.0.1 - WSGI utility library

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🚀 Usage

Running Decorator Examples

# Navigate to decorator directory
cd src/decorator

# Run timer decorator demo
python decorator_timer_demo.py

# Expected output:
# Function add took 0.000002s to execute.
# result1: 4998
# Function matrix_multiply took 0.000123s to execute.
# result2: [[19 22]
#          [43 50]]

# Run cache decorator demo
python decorator_cache_demo.py

# Run logging decorator demo
python decorator_logging_demo.py

Running Generator Examples

cd src/generator
python generator.py

Running Metaprogramming Examples

cd src/metaprogramming
python metaprogramming_demo.py

# Output:
# Alice
# gold

Running Unit Tests (Flask Blog)

# Navigate to the project
cd src/unit_test/demo

# Run all tests with verbose output
pytest tests/ -v

# Expected output:
# tests/test_app.py::test_posts_initialized_as_empty_list PASSED
# tests/test_app.py::test_get_posts PASSED
# tests/test_app.py::test_create_post PASSED
# tests/test_app.py::test_create_post_invalid_data PASSED
# tests/test_app.py::test_create_post_mock_posts PASSED
# ========== 5 passed in 0.15s ==========

# Run specific test
pytest tests/test_app.py::test_create_post -v

# Run with coverage report
pip install pytest-cov
pytest tests/ --cov=app --cov-report=html

Running the Flask Blog Application

# Make sure you're in the demo directory
cd src/unit_test/demo

# Start the Flask development server
python app.py

# Output:
# * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000
# * Debug mode: on

Open your browser and navigate to: http://localhost:5000

Using the API:

# Create a new post
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/posts \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title": "Advanced Python", "content": "Learning decorators!"}'

# Get all posts
curl http://localhost:5000/posts

# Test error handling (invalid data)
curl -X POST http://localhost:5000/posts \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title": "Missing content"}'

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🎓 Learning Outcomes

By completing this project, I have gained expertise in:

🎨 Decorators

• ✅ Understanding closures and higher-order functions
• ✅ Creating custom decorators for cross-cutting concerns
• ✅ Using *args, **kwargs for flexible function signatures
• ✅ Preserving function metadata with functools.wraps
• ✅ Practical applications: timing, caching, logging, authentication

⚡ Generators

• ✅ Memory-efficient data processing
• ✅ Lazy evaluation and on-demand computation
• ✅ Creating custom iterators with yield
• ✅ Generator expressions and comprehensions
• ✅ Use cases for large file processing

🔮 Metaprogramming

• ✅ Dynamic class creation using type()
• ✅ Understanding metaclasses and __new__
• ✅ Runtime attribute manipulation
• ✅ Building flexible, adaptable frameworks
• ✅ Knowing when (and when not) to use metaprogramming

🧪 Test-Driven Development

• ✅ Writing tests before implementation (Red-Green-Refactor)
• ✅ Using pytest for Python testing
• ✅ Creating fixtures and test configurations
• ✅ Integration testing for web applications
• ✅ Mocking dependencies for isolated testing
• ✅ Writing maintainable, well-tested code

🌐 Web Development

• ✅ Building RESTful APIs with Flask
• ✅ Handling JSON requests and responses
• ✅ HTTP status codes and error handling
• ✅ Request validation and data sanitization
• ✅ Full-stack development (Backend + Frontend)

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📖 Resources

Official Documentation

• Python Decorators 📚
• Python Generators ⚡
• Python Metaclasses 🔮
• pytest Documentation 🧪
• Flask Documentation 🌐

Recommended Reading

• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
• Python Cookbook by David Beazley
• Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
• Test-Driven Development with Python by Harry Percival

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🏆 Key Takeaways

"Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated."
— The Zen of Python

What I Learned:

1. Decorators are powerful - They enable clean separation of concerns and code reusability
2. Generators save memory - Essential for processing large datasets efficiently
3. Metaprogramming is a superpower - Use responsibly to create elegant solutions
4. Tests provide confidence - TDD ensures code quality and catches bugs early
5. Python is expressive - Advanced features enable writing elegant, maintainable code

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🤝 Contributing

Feel free to explore, learn, and build upon this project! If you have suggestions or improvements:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Submit a pull request

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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🌟 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to:

• Coursera for the Advanced Python Development course
• Python Software Foundation for creating an amazing language
• The open-source community for continuous inspiration

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🐍 Happy Pythoning! 🐍

Made with ❤️ and lots of ☕

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