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Learning Python

You're reading from   Learning Python Learn to code like a professional with Python - an open source, versatile, and powerful programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551712
Length 442 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Preface 1. Introduction and First Steps – Take a Deep Breath FREE CHAPTER 2. Built-in Data Types 3. Iterating and Making Decisions 4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code 5. Saving Time and Memory 6. Advanced Concepts – OOP, Decorators, and Iterators 7. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions 8. The Edges – GUIs and Scripts 9. Data Science 10. Web Development Done Right 11. Debugging and Troubleshooting 12. Summing Up – A Complete Example Index

A regex website


So, here we are. We'll code a website that stores regular expressions so that we'll be able to play with them a little bit.

Note

Before we proceed creating the project, I'd like to spend a word about CSS. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are files in which we specify how the various elements on an HTML page look. You can set all sorts of properties such as shape, size, color, margins, borders, fonts, and so on. In this project, I have tried my best to achieve a decent result on the pages, but I'm neither a frontend developer nor a designer, so please don't pay too much attention to how things look. Try and focus on how they work.

Setting up Django

On the Django website (https://www.djangoproject.com/), you can follow the tutorial, which gives you a pretty good idea of Django's capabilities. If you want, you can follow that tutorial first and then come back to this example. So, first things first; let's install Django in your virtual environment:

$ pip install django

When this command...

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