December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Content preview from Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Setting up a virtual environment with Flask and Flask-RESTful
We have followed the necessary steps to create and activate a virtual environment. Now, we will create a requirements.txt file to specify the set of packages that our application requires to be installed in any supported platform. This way, it will be extremely easy to repeat the installation of the specified packages with their versions in any new virtual environment.
Use your favorite editor to create a new text file, named requirements.txt, within the root folder of the recently created virtual environment. The following lines show the content of the file that declares the packages and the versions that our API requires. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_01_01 ...