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Learning Python

You're reading from  Learning Python

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551712
Pages 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
Profile icon Fabrizio Romano
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Learning Python
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Saving Time and Memory 6. Advanced Concepts – OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions 8. The Edges – GUIs and Scripts 9. Data Science 10. Web Development Done Right 11. Debugging and Troubleshooting 12. Summing Up – A Complete Example Index

Summary


In this chapter, we caught a glimpse of web development. We talked about important concepts like the DRY philosophy and the concept of a framework as a tool that provides us with many things we need in order to write code to serve requests. We also talked about the MTV pattern, and how nicely these three layers play together to realize a request-response path.

Later on, we briefly introduced regular expressions, which is a subject of paramount importance, and it's the layer which provides the tools for URL routing.

There are many different frameworks out there, and Django is definitely one of the best and most widely used, so it's definitely worth exploring, especially its source code, which is very well written.

There are other very interesting and important frameworks too, like Flask. They provide fewer features but, in general, they are faster, both in execution time and to set up. One that is extremely fast is the relatively young Falcon project, whose benchmarks are outstanding...

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