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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

Creating the command line parser

I have to confess one thing: I'm a command-line type of guy. Yes, I know it is considered by some people as outdated, but I love doing work on the terminal. I am definitely more productive and if you are using Linux or macOS, you can combine tools to get the results that you want. That's the reason that we are going to add a command line parser for this project.

There are some things we need to implement in order to start creating the command line parser. One functionality that we are going to add is the possibility of setting a default currency, which will avoid user of our application always having to specify the base currency to perform currency conversions.

To do that, we are going to create an action, We have seen how actions work in Chapter 1, Implementing the Weather Application, but just to refresh our minds, actions are...

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