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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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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

Adding the database helper class

Now that we have implemented the function that will fetch the exchange rate information from fixer.io, we need to add the class that will retrieve and save the information we fetched into our MongoDB.

So, let's go ahead and create a file called db.py inside the currency_converter/currency_converter/core directory; let's add some import statements:

  from pymongo import MongoClient

The only thing we need to import is the MongoClient. The MongoClient will be responsible for opening a connection with our database instance.

Now, we need to add the DbClient class. The idea of this class is to serve as a wrapper around the pymongo package functions and provide a simpler set of functions, abstracting some of the repetitive boilerplate code when working with pymongo:

class DbClient:

def __init__(self, db_name, default_collection...
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