Building RESTful Python Web Services

Setting up the virtual environment with Django REST framework

We have created and activated a virtual environment. It is time to run many commands that will be the same for either macOS, Linux or Windows. Now, we must run the following command to install the Django Web framework:

pip install django

The last lines of the output will indicate that the django package has been successfully installed. Take into account that you may also see a notice to upgrade pip.

Collecting django
Installing collected packages: django
Successfully installed django-1.10

Now that we have installed Django Web framework, we can install Django REST framework. We just need to run the following command to install this package:

pip install djangorestframework

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