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Python Real-World Projects

You're reading from   Python Real-World Projects Craft your Python portfolio with deployable applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246765
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Project Zero: A Template for Other Projects 2. Chapter 2: Overview of the Projects FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Project 1.1: Data Acquisition Base Application 4. Chapter 4: Data Acquisition Features: Web APIs and Scraping 5. Chapter 5: Data Acquisition Features: SQL Database 6. Chapter 6: Project 2.1: Data Inspection Notebook 7. Chapter 7: Data Inspection Features 8. Chapter 8: Project 2.5: Schema and Metadata 9. Chapter 9: Project 3.1: Data Cleaning Base Application 10. Chapter 10: Data Cleaning Features 11. Chapter 11: Project 3.7: Interim Data Persistence 12. Chapter 12: Project 3.8: Integrated Data Acquisition Web Service 13. Chapter 13: Project 4.1: Visual Analysis Techniques 14. Chapter 14: Project 4.2: Creating Reports 15. Chapter 15: Project 5.1: Modeling Base Application 16. Chapter 16: Project 5.2: Simple Multivariate Statistics 17. Chapter 17: Next Steps 18. Other Books You Might Enjoy 19. Index

3.4 Summary

This chapter introduced the first project, the Data Acquisition Base Application. This application extracts data from a CSV file with a complex structure, creating four separate series of data points from a single file.

To make the application complete, we included a command-line interface and logging. This will make sure the application behaves well in a controlled production environment.

An important part of the process is designing an application that can be extended to handle data from a variety of sources and in a variety of formats. The base application contains modules with very small implementations that serve as a foundation for making subsequent extensions.

Perhaps the most difficult part of this project is creating a suite of acceptance tests to describe the proper behavior. It’s common for developers to compare the volume of test code with the application code and claim testing is taking up ”too much” of their time.

Pragmatically, a program...

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