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How to Build an Immutable Money Value Object in Python

Implement an immutable Money class with rounded decimal amounts, currency, safe equality, and hashing for use as a value object.

value-object immutability money

Python

class Money:
    def __init__(self, amount: float, currency: str):
        object.__setattr__(self, "_amount", round(amount, 2))
        object.__setattr__(self, "_currency", currency)

    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        raise AttributeError(f"Money is immutable: cannot set '{name}'")

    def __delattr__…

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Implement a Consistent Hash Ring in Python

Build a minimal consistent hash ring with virtual nodes to map keys to servers stably as nodes are added or removed.

consistent-hashing hashing distributed-systems

Python

import hashlib
import bisect


class ConsistentHashRing:
    def __init__(self, nodes=None, replicas=3):
        self.replicas = replicas
        self.ring = {}
        self.sorted_keys = []
        if nodes:
            for node in nodes:
                self.add_node(node)

    def _hash(self, key):
        return i…

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Inbox pattern consumer dedupe mock in Python

Implements a mock inbox consumer that deduplicates incoming messages by ID, with automatic eviction of old seen IDs to prevent unbounded memory growth.

deduplication inbox-pattern dataclasses

Python

import json
from collections import deque
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from hashlib import sha256
from typing import Any


@dataclass
class InboxConsumer:
    max_seen: int = 1000
    seen_ids: set = field(default_factory=set)
    seen_history: deque = field(default_factory=deque)

    def _mark_seen(self,…

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