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Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By : Steven F. Lott
Book Image

Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Python is the preferred choice of developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists everywhere. It is a great scripting language that can power your applications and provide great speed, safety, and scalability. By exposing Python as a series of simple recipes, you can gain insight into specific language features in a particular context. This video will arm you with the knowledge of creating applications with flexible logging, powerful configuration, and command-line options, automated unit tests, and good documentation. You will learn to use the Flask framework for Restful APIs. You will end the course equipped with the knowledge of testing, web services, and configuration and application integration tips and tricks.
Table of Contents (3 chapters)
Chapter 3
Application Integration
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Section 1
Finding Configuration Files
Let’s see how we can support a rich hierarchy of locations for configuration files. - Import the Path class, the ChainMap class, and get the configuration files - Define the application's built-in defaults iterate to load the file - Reverse the list and create the final ChainMap and return the final configuration mapping