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Learning Python

By : Fabrizio Romano
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Learning Python

By: Fabrizio Romano

Overview of this book

Learning Python has a dynamic and varied nature. It reads easily and lays a good foundation for those who are interested in digging deeper. It has a practical and example-oriented approach through which both the introductory and the advanced topics are explained. Starting with the fundamentals of programming and Python, it ends by exploring very different topics, like GUIs, web apps and data science. The book takes you all the way to creating a fully fledged application. The book begins by exploring the essentials of programming, data structures and teaches you how to manipulate them. It then moves on to controlling the flow of a program and writing reusable and error proof code. You will then explore different programming paradigms that will allow you to find the best approach to any situation, and also learn how to perform performance optimization as well as effective debugging. Throughout, the book steers you through the various types of applications, and it concludes with a complete mini website built upon all the concepts that you learned.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Our implementation


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One will be an API written in Falcon. Its purpose will be twofold, it will be able to both generate and validate passwords. It will provide the caller with information about the validity and a score which should indicate how strong the password is.

The second application is a Django website, which will provide the interface to handle records. Each record will retain information such as the username, e-mail, password, URL, and so on. It will show a list of all the records, and it will allow the user to create, update and delete them. Passwords will be encrypted before being stored in the database.

The purpose of the whole project is, therefore, to mimic the way KeepassX works, even though it is in a much simpler fashion. It will be up to you, if you like this idea, to develop it further in order to add other features and make it more secure...