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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


It has been a long journey, and we have covered a lot of ground in this chapter. In this chapter, you have seen how easy it is to build an application with Django. The framework really honors the phrase Framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

You have learned how to create a new Django project and applications, with a short walkthrough of the boilerplate code that Django generates for us when we start a new project. We learned how to create models and use migrations to apply changes to the database.

Django forms was also a subject that we covered a lot in this chapter, and you should be able to create complex forms for your projects.

As a bonus, we learned how to install and use NodeJS Version Manager (NVM) to install Node.js, so as to install project dependencies using the npm.

In Chapter 5, Building a Web Messenger with Microservices, we are going to extend this application and create services that will handle the store inventory.