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Python Microservices Development
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Python Microservices Development

by Tarek Ziadé
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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A few definitions

When we talk about packaging Python projects, a few terms can be confusing, because their definitions have evolved over time, and also because they can mean slightly different things outside the Python world.

We need to define, what's a Python package, a Python project, a Python library, and a Python application. They are defined as follows:

  • A Python package is a directory tree containing Python modules. You can import it, and it is part of the module namespace.
  • A Python project can contain several packages and other resources, and is what you release. Each microservice you build with Flask is a Python project.
  • A Python application is a Python project that can be directly used through a user interface. The user interface ...
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