Setting up the environment

The first thing we have to do is, as usual, set up our development environment and the first step is to create a virtual environment for our application. Our application will be called twittervotes, so let's go ahead and create a virtual environment called twittervotes:

When the virtualenv environment has been created, you can activate it with the following command:

. twittervotes/bin/activate

Great! Now let's set up the project's directory structure. It should look like the following:

twittervotes
├── core
│   ├── models
│   └── twitter
└── templates

Let's dive into the structure a bit:

twittervotes

The application's root directory. Here, we will create the application's entry point as well as a small helper...