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Python Programming Blueprints

By : Daniel Furtado, Marcus Pennington
Book Image

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

Creating the project's main app


In this section, we are going to create our first Django app. One Django project can contain multiple apps. Splitting the project into apps is a good practice for many reasons; the most obvious is that you can reuse the same app across different projects. Another reason to split the project into multiple apps is that it enforces separation of concerns. Your project will be more organized, easier to reason, and our colleagues will thank you because it will be much easier to maintain.

Let's go ahead and run the command startapp, and, as shown before, you can either use the django-admin command or use manager.py. As we created the project using the django-admin command, it is a good opportunity to test the manager.py command. To create a new Django app, run the following command:

python manager.py startapp main

Here, we are going to create an app named main. Don't worry that no output is displayed, Django creates the project and the app silently. If you get a list...