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

Daniel Furtado · Marcus Pennington

Feb 2018 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this eBook

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

Python 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 PostgreSQL

Who this book is for

This 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.

About the author

Daniel Furtado is a software developer with over 20 years of experience in different technologies such as Python, C, .NET, C#, and JavaScript. He started programming at the age of 13 on his ZX Spectrum. He joined the Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Human Cancer Genome Project in Brazil, where he developed web applications and tools in Perl and Python to help researchers analyze data. He has never stopped developing in Python ever since. Daniel has worked on various open source projects; the latest one is a PyTerrier web micro-framework. Marcus Pennington started his journey into computer science at Highams Park Sixth Form College where he took a Cisco CCNA course. He then went to the University of Hertfordshire, where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence. Since then, he has had the privilege of working with some of the best developers and learning the benefits and pitfalls of many of the software practices we use today. He has a passion for writing clean, cohesive, and beautiful code.