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Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

By : Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen
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Book Image

Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Bruce M. Van Horn II, Quan Nguyen

Overview of this book

In the quest to develop robust, professional-grade software with Python and meet tight deadlines, it’s crucial to have the best tools at your disposal. In this second edition of Hands-on Application Development with PyCharm, you’ll learn tips and tricks to work at a speed and proficiency previously reserved only for elite developers. To achieve that, you’ll be introduced to PyCharm, the premiere professional integrated development environment for Python programmers among the myriad of IDEs available. Regardless of how Python is utilized, whether for general automation scripting, utility creation, web applications, data analytics, machine learning, or business applications, PyCharm offers tooling that simplifies complex tasks and streamlines common ones. In this book, you'll find everything you need to harness PyCharm's full potential and make the most of Pycharm's productivity shortcuts. The book comprehensively covers topics ranging from installation and customization to web development, database management, and data analysis pipeline development helping you become proficient in Python application development in diverse domains. By the end of this book, you’ll have discovered the remarkable capabilities of PyCharm and how you can achieve a new level of capability and productivity.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Basics of PyCharm
4
Part 2: Improving Your Productivity
9
Part 3: Web Development in PyCharm
15
Part 4: Data Science with PyCharm
19
Part 5: Plugins and Conclusion

A note on naming files and folders

Before we get further into creating the next project, I want to give you some advice based on a principle I always point out to my students. The internet abhors spaces. Spaces are not allowed in URLs as-is because they are reserved characters. When you include a space in a URL, it needs to be URL-encoded as %20 to be considered valid. Web servers automatically handle this encoding, but manually encoding spaces can lead to readability issues in URLs, and it can cause issues when trying to run your projects on your local computer.

In a web project, most of your project paths will become URLs at some point. This can happen even when your project isn’t even intended for the web. To add to the problem, different operating systems treat characters differently in their filesystems. Windows filenames are case insensitive. If you name your file or folder MyProject, and then try to create a folder called myproject, you’ll get a collision since...