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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 users


Now that we have our Nameko dependency in place, we can start to add functionality to our UserWrapper. We will start by creating users. Add the following to the UserWrapper class:

def create(self, **kwargs): 
    user = User(**kwargs) 
    self.session.add(user) 
    self.session.commit() 

This create method will create a new User object, add it to our database session, commit that change to the database, and return the user. Nothing fancy here! But let's talk about the process of self.session.add and self.session.commit. When we first add the user to the session, this adds the user to our local database session in memory, rather than adding them to our actual database. The new user has been staged but no changes have actually taken place in our database. This is rather useful. Say we wanted to do multiple updates to the database, making a number of calls to the database can be expensive, so we first make all the changes we want in memory, then commit them all with a single...