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Python Programming Blueprints

By : Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
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Python Programming Blueprints

By: Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington

Overview of this book

Python is a very powerful, high-level, object-oriented programming language. It's known for its simplicity and huge community support. Python Programming Blueprints will help you build useful, real-world applications using Python. In this book, we will cover some of the most common tasks that Python developers face on a daily basis, including performance optimization and making web applications more secure. We will familiarize ourselves with the associated software stack and master asynchronous features in Python. We will build a weather application using command-line parsing. We will then move on to create a Spotify remote control where we'll use OAuth and the Spotify Web API. The next project will cover reactive extensions by teaching you how to cast votes on Twitter the Python way. We will also focus on web development by using the famous Django framework to create an online game store. We will then create a web-based messenger using the new Nameko microservice framework. We will cover topics like authenticating users and, storing messages in Redis. By the end of the book, you will have gained hands-on experience in coding with Python.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Contributors
Packt Upsell
Preface
Index

Authenticating users


We can now look at how to authenticate users. This is a very simple process:

  1. Retrieve the user we want to authenticate from the database.
  2. Perform a bcrypt.checkpw giving it the attempted password and the password hash of the user.
  3. Raise an exception if the result is False.
  4. Return the user if it's True.

Retrieving users from the database

Starting with the first point, we will need to add a new dependency method, get, which returns the user, given the email, if it exists.

First, add a new exception class in users.py:

class UserNotFound(Exception): 
    pass 

This is what we will raise in the event of the user not being found. Now we will update our imports to include the following:

from sqlalchemy.orm.exc import NoResultFound 

NoResultFound, as the name implies, is raised by SQLAlchemy when a requested object is not found in the database. Now we can add a new method to our UserWrapper class:

def get(self, email): 
    query = self.session.query(User) # ① 
 
    try: 
        user...