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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

Let’s get CRUDdier and then get testier!

Right now, the only thing in our app is two pre-generated endpoints. Let’s add some more to make this a little more interesting. We’re going to make a fake list app as we did in Chapter 8, Building a Dynamic Web Application with Flask.

Open up main.py and let’s add one endpoint for each CRUD operation, and in turn, each of the four main methods used in building RESTful APIs. We’re going to make some sweeping changes, so I’ll simply present them starting at the top of the file.

On the first line, where we have the import, change it to this:

from fastapi import FastAPI, status, HTTPException
app = FastAPI()

The app instantiate was unchanged. Below it, though, add this list of amazing people:

names = ["Bruce", "Karina", "Kitty", "Phoebe"]

This list will serve as a fake database, saving us the time of setting up servers and the blah blah blah, which...