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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

Integration with the game online store


Now that we have the service up and running, we are ready to finish the online video game store project from Chapter 7, Online Video Game Store with Django. We are not going to perform many changes, but there are two improvements that we are going to do:

  • At the moment, in the online video game store, it is not possible to submit orders. The users of our site can only add items to the cart, visualize, and edit the cart's items. We are going to finish that implementation and create a view so that we can submit the order.
  • We are going to implement one more view where we can see the order history.

So, let's get right to it!

The first change that we are going to do is add the authentication token for the api_user that we created in the service orders. We also want to add the base URL to the order service, so it will be easier for us to build up the URLs that we need to perform the requests. Open the settings.py file in the gamestore directory and add these two...