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SOLID Coding in Python by Mattia Cinelli.
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This was fun to read. It has some nice examples.
I submit that the order of presentation (S, O, L, I, D) is misleading. The acronym is fun, but awkward.
My LinkedIn Learning course covers these in (what I think is) a more useful order.
- Interface Segregation. I think this is the place to start: make your interfaces as small as possible.
- Liskov Substitution. Where necessary, leverage inheritance.
- Open/Closed. This is a good quality check to be sure you've followed the first two principles well.
- Dependency Injection. This is often about test design and future expansion. In Python, where everything really happens at run time, we often fail to parameterize a type properly. We often figure that out a test time, and need to revisit the Open/Closed principle to get things right.
- Single Responsibility is more of a summary of the previous principles than a distinct, new principle. I think it comes last and should be treated as a collection of good ideas, not a single idea.
I think time spent on the first three -- Interface Segregation, Liskov Substitution, and the Open/Closed principle -- pay off tremendously. The ILODS acronym, though, isn't as cool as SOLID.
The "Single Responsibility" suffers from an ambiguous context. At one level of abstraction, all classes have a single responsibility. As we dive into details, we uncover multiple responsibilities. The further we descend into implementation details the more responsibilities we uncover. I prefer to consider this a poetic summary, not the first step in reviewing a design.