# Design Patterns: Adapter

DevFeed: [Design Patterns: Adapter](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/design-patterns-adapter-40671.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/design-patterns-adapter/>)

Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>)

Tags: [adapter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adapter.md>), [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [design-patterns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-patterns.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [software-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-design.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial on the Adapter structural design pattern. It explains how an adapter wraps an existing class or module and maps its functionality to a new interface, reducing dependence on legacy or third-party code. The article includes C++ and Python examples.

## Source excerpt

Software design patterns by example