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Python Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   Python Programming Blueprints Build nine projects by leveraging powerful frameworks such as Flask, Nameko, and Django

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468161
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marcus Pennington Marcus Pennington
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Pierluigi Riti Pierluigi Riti
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Implementing the Weather Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Remote-Control Application with Spotify 3. Casting Votes on Twitter 4. Exchange Rates and the Currency Conversion Tool 5. Building a Web Messenger with Microservices 6. Extending TempMessenger with a User Authentication Microservice 7. Online Video Game Store with Django 8. Order Microservice 9. Notification Serverless Application 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up the development environment

As usual, we are going to start setting up the environment for development. In Chapter 4, Exchange Rates and the Currency Conversion Tool, you were introduced to pipenv, so in this and the following chapters, we are going to be using pipenv to create our virtual environment and manage our dependencies.

First, we want to create the directory where we are going to keep our project. In your working directory, create a directory called django-project as follows:

mkdir django-project && cd django-project

Now we can run pipenv to create our virtual environment:

pipenv --three

If you have Python 3 installed in another location, you can use the argument --python and specify the path where the Python executable is located. If everything went fine, you should see an output such as the following:

Now we can activate our virtual environment...

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