A software example
I tried to find some good examples of Python applications that use the Chain of Responsibility pattern but I couldn't, most likely because Python programmers don't use this name. So, my apologies, but I will use other programming languages as a reference.
The servlet filters of Java are pieces of code that are executed before an HTTP request arrives at a target. When using servlet filters, there is a chain of filters. Each filter performs a different action (user authentication, logging, data compression, and so forth), and either forwards the request to the next filter until the chain is exhausted, or it breaks the flow if there is an error (for example, the authentication failed three consecutive times) [j.mp/soservl].
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