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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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Daniel Furtado Daniel Furtado
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Implementing the Weather Application 2. Creating a Remote-Control Application with Spotify FREE CHAPTER 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

Summary

In this chapter, we developed an application to cast votes on Twitter and we learned the different concepts and paradigms of the Python programming language.

By creating the hashtag voting application, you have learned how to create and configure a Twitter app and also how to implement a three-legged OAuth authentication to consume data from the Twitter API.

We also learned how to use the logging module to show informational messages to the users of our application. Like the previous modules, we also created a command-line parser using the ArgumentParser module in the standard library.

We also had an introduction to reactive programming using the Rx (Reactive Extensions for Python) module. Then we used the concurrent.futures module to enhance the performance of our application, running multiple requests to the Twitter API in parallel.

Lastly, we built a user interface...

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