A software example
Using the State pattern in essence means implementing a state machine to solve a software problem in a specific domain. The django-fsm package is a third-party package that can be used to simplify the implementation and usage of state machines in the Django framework [j.mp/django-fsm].
Python offers more than one third-party package/module to use and implement state machines [j.mp/pyfsm]. We will see how to use one of them in the implementation section.
Another project worth mentioning is the State Machine Compiler (SMC). With SMC, you can describe your state machine in a single text file using a simple Domain Specific Language (DSL), and it will generate the state machine's code automatically. The project claims that the DSL ...
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