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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.

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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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How to Implement the Abstract Factory Pattern in Python

Implements the Abstract Factory pattern to create families of related GUI objects (buttons, checkboxes) without specifying their concrete classes.

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from abc import ABC, abstractmethod


class Button(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def render(self):
        pass


class Checkbox(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def render(self):
        pass


class WindowsButton(Button):
    def render(self):
        return "Rendering Windows-style button"


class WindowsCheckbox(Chec…
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How to Implement the Strategy Pattern in Python

This Python code demonstrates the Strategy design pattern using interchangeable sorting algorithms (bubble sort and quick sort) that can be swapped at runtime.

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class SortingStrategy:
    def sort(self, data):
        raise NotImplementedError

class BubbleSort(SortingStrategy):
    def sort(self, data):
        result = data.copy()
        n = len(result)
        for i in range(n):
            for j in range(0, n - i - 1):
                if result[j] > result[j + 1]:
      …
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