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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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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

Exploring the Django project's structure


If you look at the Django website, it says Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines, and I could not agree more with this statement. So far, we haven't written any lines of code, and we already have a site up and running. In just a few commands, we can create a new project with the same directory structure and boilerplate code. Let's start with the development.

We can set up a new database and create a superuser, and, on the top of that, Django comes with a very nice and useful admin UI, where you can visualize our data, , and users.

In this section, we are going to explore the code that Django created for us when starting a new project so that we can get familiar with the structure. Let's go ahead and start adding the other components of our project.

If you have a look inside of the project's root directory, you will find a file called db.sqlite3, another file called manage.py, and, lastly, a directory with the same name as the project...

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