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API design for precomputation cache [closed]
In my numeric code library I have a function totient_sum that depends on an expensive one-time precomputation totsum_range = [...], then different calls to totient_sum(n) are quick. There are several ...
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Hierachy and API design for a CSS-selector-related Python library
I'm writing a Python CSS-selector library that allows one to write these kinds of expressions in Python as a pet project. The goal of the library is to represent selectors in a flat, intuitive and ...
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Best approach to microservice shared databse architecture
I have two microservices, one Flask (python) and one Spring (java), they currently share a database. The Flask microservice handles processing json files (~40mb) for each user (could be 100's or 1000'...
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Is it considered as bad practice to have code on the __init__.py? [closed]
I am a bit confused about best practices when it comes to where and how to initiate the Flask() or FastAPI() for a data-intensive web API. The vast majority of the code available online is using this ...
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Designing a system to hit multiple HTTP requests serially
Hope this is the right StackExchange community to ask this question.
I am building a (Python) project that will have a list if URLs to hit. They have to be hit serially, and part of response of one ...
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Why is `replace(dataclass, **kwargs)` a function, and not a member?
Imagine a simple data class:
@dataclass
class Settings:
m: int
s: str
old = Settings(m=10, s="ten")
It feels normal to write new = old.replace(m=1), but we have to write new = replace(...
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Communication between two apps
I am thinking of creating two applications, one of which (App 1) will be in Django (DRF) and other (App 2)might be Django but might be another more lightweight framework (maybe Flask or plain Django ...
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Indexable iterators
Suppose someone designs an indexable iterator class, i.e. an iterator that supports __getitem__ for (non-negative) integer indexes such as the following:
In [1] it = indexed_iter("abcdefghij"...
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User-friendly parameter parsing from yaml
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I have designed an evaluation tool (in python) and need some help to make it more user friendly. The tool requires ~100 (nested) parameters, which it gets from a yaml file and stores ...
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Design decision of reading XLSX file at once or intermittently
I am working on converting an existing python based monolith solution to a microservice. The current flow is pretty straight forward:
Accept XLSX as input -> Run some complex algorithms based on ...
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mongodb queries architecture - resolving lots of nested referenced objects
I have an angular 8 application, with a Python + MongoDB API on the backend.
At present, I have 4 collections, namely: Users, Tasks, Companies and Groups.
All of these resource types are retrievable ...
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Designing an Entity Component System for interfacing with a scripting language
I am currently building an Entity Component System (ECS) in cython in order to speed up operating on large numbers of game objects in python. In the process of building this system, I ran into the ...
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Making the REST API to act as a playlist
Imagine the application I am building as a normal media playlist (Video / Music). On the client side, I select the files I want to play (Files are located on server), and I send its paths to the ...
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Designing a Python API with defaults
I'm designing an API for a Python library. The user will create objects with several parameters. In most cases, the user will either leave these at their default values or will set them globally, for ...
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How can I resolve this **kwargs antipattern?
I am a hobbyist programmer, working on a much more complex Python project than I've attempted before, which is in the form of a Python library.
I find that I'm often passing **kwargs around (as ...
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