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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

Summary


In this Chapter 1, Implementing the Weather Application, you learned the basics of object-oriented programming in Python; we covered how to create classes, use inheritance, and use the @property decorators to create getter and setters.

We covered how to use the inspect module to get more information about modules, classes, and functions. Last but not least, we made use of the powerful package Beautifulsoup to parse HTML and Selenium to make requests to the weather website.

We also learned how to implement command line tools using the argparse module from Python's standard library, which allows us to provide tools that are easier to use and with very helpful documentation.

Next up, we are going to develop a small wrapper around the Spotify Rest API and use it to create a remote control terminal.