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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 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 a new Django project


To create a new Django project, run the following command:

django-admin startproject gamestore

Note that django-admin created a directory called gamestore that contains some boilerplate code for us. We will go through the files that Django created in a little while, but, first, we are going to create our first Django application. In the Django world, you have the project and the application, and according to the Django documentation, the project describes the web application itself, and the application is a Python package that provides some kind of feature; these applications contain their own set of routes, views, static files and can be reused across different Django projects.

Don't worry if you don't understand it completely; you will learn more as we progress.

With that said, let's create the project's initial application. Run cd gamestore, and once you are inside the gamestore directory, execute the following command:

python-admin startapp main

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