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Python Real-World Projects

By : Steven F. Lott
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Book Image

Python Real-World Projects

5 (1)
By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

In today's competitive job market, a project portfolio often outshines a traditional resume. Python Real-World Projects empowers you to get to grips with crucial Python concepts while building complete modules and applications. With two dozen meticulously designed projects to explore, this book will help you showcase your Python mastery and refine your skills. Tailored for beginners with a foundational understanding of class definitions, module creation, and Python's inherent data structures, this book is your gateway to programming excellence. You’ll learn how to harness the potential of the standard library and key external projects like JupyterLab, Pydantic, pytest, and requests. You’ll also gain experience with enterprise-oriented methodologies, including unit and acceptance testing, and an agile development approach. Additionally, you’ll dive into the software development lifecycle, starting with a minimum viable product and seamlessly expanding it to add innovative features. By the end of this book, you’ll be armed with a myriad of practical Python projects and all set to accelerate your career as a Python programmer.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

12.3 Deliverables

This project has the following deliverables:

  • Documentation in the docs folder

  • Acceptance tests in the tests/features and tests/steps folders

  • Unit tests for the application modules in the tests folder

  • An application for the RESTful API processing

We’ll start by looking at the acceptance test cases, first. They’ll be rather complex because we need to start the RESTful API service before we can access it with a client request.

12.3.1 Acceptance test cases

Back in Chapter 4, Data Acquisition Features: Web APIs and Scraping, specifically Acceptance tests using a SQLite database, we looked at ways to describe a scenario that involved a database service.

For this project, we’ll need to write scenarios that will lead to step definitions that start the RESTful API service.

There’s an important question about setting the state of the RESTful API server. One approach to setting a state is by making a sequence of requests as part of the scenario...