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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


This now brings us to a close with the guide to writing the TempMessenger application. If you have never used Nameko before or written a microservice, I hope I have given you a good base to build on when it comes to keeping services small and to the point.

We started by creating a service with a single RPC method and then used that within another service via HTTP. We then looked at ways in which we can test Nameko services with fixtures that allow us to spawn workers and even the services themselves.

We introduced dependency providers and created a Redis client with the ability to get a single message. With that, we expanded the Redis dependency with methods that allowed us to save new messages, expire messages, and return them all in a list.

We looked at how we can return HTML to the browser using Jinja2, and at creating a dependency provider. We even looked at some JavaScript and JQuery to enable us to make requests from the browser.

One of the main themes you will have probably noticed...