Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

Setting up the development environment

Before we start writing the code for our application, we need to have some dependencies in place. So, let's build the environment and then move on to writing the code that will power our application.

As a first step, let's create a directory that will contain all the files related to our project. Let's call this folder github_demo. The following command gets the folder in place for us:

mkdir github_demo

Once we have the directory setup done, let's move into the directory and set up a few things:

cd github_demo

Once this is done, we can now set up our project. Before we start writing the code, let's get the virtual environment setup done, which will help us to keep our project dependencies segregated. ...