Escaping the template pattern hellscape in Python
Escaping the template pattern hellscape in Python
Over the years, I’ve used the template pattern across multiple OO languages with varying degrees of success. It was one of the first patterns I learned in the primordial hours of my software engineering career, and for some reason, it just feels like the natural way to tackle many real-world code-sh...
Originally saw this in a post by the author on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@rednafi/110644868109506095
Huh... now I have an excuse for why I hate the little custom "library" my coworker put together and tried to get me to use.
But skimming this tells me I've got a lot to learn, yet. A lot of it was hard to understand and is going to take some careful re-reading... I think the level of coding I've done so far just doesn't necessitate custom classes, and I don't particularly like them unless it's from an established library.
The link is to a person's Mastodon post advertising their own blog post. Here's a direct link to that blog post: https://rednafi.com/python/escape_template_pattern/
My post's link is to the original blog URL that you point to, I just mentioned the author's Mastodon post where I
ranfirst saw a reference to the blog post.