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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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Pierluigi Riti Pierluigi Riti
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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

The application's configuration

To make the application more flexible and easy to configure, we are going to create a configuration file. This way, we don't need to hardcode the URL and access keys; also, if we need to change these settings, changes in the source code will not be required.
We are going to create a config file in the YAML format to store information that will be used by our application to authenticate, make requests to the Spotify RESP API endpoints, and so on.

Creating a configuration file

Let's go ahead and create a file called config.yaml in the musicterminal directory with the following contents:

client_id: '<your client ID>'
client_secret: '<your client secret>...
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Python Programming Blueprints
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781786468161
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