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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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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

Adding the configuration file

In this section, we are going to create the configuration file for our application; the configuration file will be in YAML format. If you would like to know more about YAML, you can check the site http://yaml.org/, where you will find examples, the specification, and also a list of libraries in different programming languages that can be used to manipulate YAML files.

For our application, we are going to use PyYAML, which will allow us to read and write YAML files in a very simple manner. Our configuration file is quite simple so we will not need to use any advanced features of the library, we just want to read the content and write, and the data that we are going to add is quite flat; we will not have any nested objects or lists of any kind.

Let's get the information that we obtained from Twitter when we created our app and add it to the configuration...

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