Here’s a More Pythonic Factory Pattern

What would the Factory Pattern look like if it was invented today instead of in the 90s? I talk about the design principles behind the Factory Pattern, and how you can achieve the same thing, but even better, by using modern Python features.
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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Explaining the example
2:44 Analyzing the Factory pattern
3:56 Using a Protocol class
7:29 Caveats of Protocols
9:24 Using Tuples to create factories
14:29 Caveats of tuples
15:26 Using dataclasses and _call_
22:13 Final thoughts
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