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Design Patterns · Creational Design Patterns: Factory, Builder and the Singleton Debate

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Trick to keep in mind+3 XP

Same if/elif ladder in many places? Climb it once, inside a factory.

The pain behind a repeated type check is that every caller must know which concrete class to build. A factory moves that decision into one place: callers say what they need and receive something that does the job. A new format then means editing one function. A builder is for step-by-step assembly, and a singleton is for exactly one instance, neither of which this is about.

Read it once, then a question tests whether the trick stuck.