Python Programming Blueprints: Build nine projects by leveraging powerful frameworks such as Flask, Nameko, and Django

by Pierluigi Riti, Marcus Pennington, Daniel Furtado

How to build useful, real-world applications in the Python programming language

Key Features Deliver scalable and high-performing applications in Python. Delve into the great ecosystem of Python frameworks and libraries through projects that you will build with this book. This comprehensive guide will help you demonstrate the power of Python by building practical projects.Book DescriptionPython 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.

What you will learn Learn object-oriented and functional programming concepts while developing projects The dos and don'ts of storing passwords in a database Develop a fully functional website using the popular Django framework Use the Beautiful Soup library to perform web scrapping Get started with cloud computing by building microservice and serverless applications in AWS Develop scalable and cohesive microservices using the Nameko framework Create service dependencies for Redis and PostgreSQLWho this book is forThis book is for software developers who are familiar with Python and want to gain hands-on experience with web and software development projects. A basic knowledge of Python programming is required.

Table of ContentsImplementing the Weather ApplicationCreating a Remote-Control Application with SpotifyCasting Votes on TwitterExchange Rates and the Currency Conversion ToolBuilding a Web Messenger with MicroservicesExtending TempMessenger with a User Authentication MicroserviceOnline Video Game Store with DjangoOrder MicroserviceNotification Serverless Application

458 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 27, 2018

Reviews

[Richard Williams]

Just read chapter 1 so far. This deals with the Weatherterm app which relies on the weather.com web site as a subject of web scraping. Unfortunately the site has been rebuilt since the book was written and so the app doesn't work. This means that anyone reading the book now and working through Chapter 1 will be disappointed because the app doesn't work. You don't find this out until the app is nearly complete. This is always likely to happen when authors rely on external web sites to illustrate the workings of a language like Python3. The same thing happens when books rely on certain releases of software. An example is Angular where large changes are likely to happen from one release to the next.