Learning Python Design Patterns - Second Edition

Chapter 4. The Façade Pattern – Being Adaptive with Façade

In the previous chapter, you learned about the Factory design pattern. We discussed about three variations—Simple Factory, Factory method, and Abstract Factory pattern. You also learned how each of them is used in the real world and looked at Python implementations. We also compared the Factory method with Abstract Factory patterns and listed the pros and cons. As we are now aware, both the Factory design pattern and Singleton design pattern (Chapter 2, The Singleton Design Pattern) are classified as Creational design patterns.

In this chapter, we will move ahead and learn about another type of design pattern, the Structural design pattern. We will get introduced to the Façade design pattern ...