Python Programming Blueprints

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright and Credits
   1. Python Programming Blueprints
3. Dedication
4. Packt Upsell
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5. Contributors
   1. About the authors
   2. About the reviewers
   3. Packt is searching for authors like you
6. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
      1. Download the example code files
      2. Conventions used
   4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
7. Implementing the Weather Application
   1. Setting up the environment
   2. Core functionality
      1. Loading parsers dynamically
      2. Creating the application's model
      3. Fetching data from the weather website
   3. Getting the user's input with ArgumentParser
   4. Creating the parser
      1. Getting today's weather forecast
         1. Adding helper methods
         2. Implementing today's weather forecast
      2. Getting five- and ten-day weather forecasts
      3. Getting the weekend weather forecast
   5. Summary
8. Creating a Remote-Control Application with Spotify
   1. Setting up the environment
   2. Creating a Spotify app
   3. The application's configuration
      1. Creating a configuration file
      2. Implementing a configuration file reader
   4. Authenticating with Spotify's web API
      1. Implementing the client credentials flow
      2. Implementing the authorization code flow
      3. Authorizing our application with authorization code flow
   5. Querying Spotify's web API
   6. Creating the player
      1. Adding menus for albums and track selection
      2. Implementing the menu panel
      3. Creating the DataManager class
      4. Time to listen to music!
   7. Summary
9. Casting Votes on Twitter
   1. Setting up the environment
   2. Creating a Twitter application
   3. Adding the configuration file
   4. Performing authentication
      1. Creating the Flask application
         1. Creating the application routes
   5. Building the Twitter voting application
      1. Enhancing our code
   6. Summary
10. Exchange Rates and the Currency Conversion Tool
    1. Setting up the environment
    2. Creating the API wrapper
    3. Adding the database helper class
    4. Creating the command line parser
       1. Creating the currency enumeration
       2. Creating the command line parser
          1. Basic validation
    5. Adding the application's entry point
    6. Testing our application
    7. Summary
11. Building a Web Messenger with Microservices
    1. TempMessenger Goals
    2. Requirements
    3. What is Nameko?
       1. RPCs
       2. How Nameko uses AMQP
       3. RabbitMQ
          1. Starting a RabbitMQ container
       4. Installing Python requirements
    4. Creating your first Nameko microservice
       1. Making a call to our service
    5. Unit-testing a Nameko microservice
    6. Exposing HTTP entrypoints
    7. Integration testing Nameko microservices
    8. Storing messages
       1. An introduction to Redis
          1. Starting a Redis container
          2. Installing the Python Redis client
          3. Using Redis
    9. Nameko Dependency Providers
       1. Adding a Redis Dependency Provider
          1. Designing the Client
          2. Creating the Dependency Provider
          3. Creating our Message Service
          4. Putting it all together
    10. Saving messages
        1. Adding a save message method to our Redis client
        2. Adding a save message RPC
    11. Retrieving all messages
        1. Adding a get all messages method to our Redis client
        2. Adding a get all messages RPC
        3. Putting it all together
    12. Displaying messages in the web browser
        1. Adding a Jinja2 Dependency Provider
           1. Creating the template renderer
        2. Creating our homepage template
        3. Creating the Dependency Provider
        4. Making a HTML response
        5. Putting it all together
    13. Sending messages via POST requests
        1. Adding a send messages POST request
        2. Adding an AJAX POST request in jQuery
    14. Expiring messages in Redis
    15. Sorting messages
    16. Browser polling for messages
        1. Polling with JavaScript
    17. Summary
12. Extending TempMessenger with a User Authentication Microservice
    1. TempMessenger goals
    2. Requirements
    3. Creating a Postgres dependency
       1. Starting a Postgres Docker container
       2. Creating the user model
       3. Creating the user dependency
    4. Creating users
       1. Creating the User Service
    5. Securely storing passwords in the database
       1. Using Bcrypt
       2. Hashing our user passwords
       3. Handling duplicate users
    6. Authenticating users
       1. Retrieving users from the database
       2. Authenticating a user's password
    7. Splitting out the services
    8. Creating a Flask server
    9. Web sessions
       1. Creating a sign-up page
       2. Logging users out
       3. Logging users in
    10. Prepending the email to our messages
    11. Summary
13. Online Video Game Store with Django
    1. Setting up the development environment
       1. Installing Node.js
    2. Creating a new Django project
    3. Exploring the Django project's structure
       1. Diving into the SQLite
       2. Looking at the project's package directory
    4. Creating the project's main app
    5. Installing client-side dependencies
    6. Adding login and logout views
       1. Testing the login/logout forms
    7. Creating new users
       1. Creating the views of the user creation
    8. Creating the game data model
       1. Creating the price list data model
       2. Creating the game list and details page
       3. Adding list games views
    9. Creating the shopping cart model
       1. Creating the shopping cart form
       2. Creating the shopping cart view
       3. Adding items to the cart
    10. Summary
14. Order Microservice
    1. Setting up the environment
    2. Creating the service models
    3. Creating the model's managers
    4. Learning to test
       1. Creating the test files
       2. Testing the cancel order function 
       3. Testing the get all orders function
       4. Getting customer's incomplete orders
       5. Getting customer's completed orders
       6. Getting orders by status
       7. Getting orders by period
       8. Setting the order's next status
       9. Setting the order's status
    5. Creating the order model serializer
    6. Creating the views
       1. Adding views
    7. Setting up the service URLs
    8. Integration with the game online store
       1. Testing the integration
    9. Deploying to AWS
       1. Modifying the settings.py file
       2. Deploying the order service
    10. Summary
15. Notification Serverless Application
    1. Setting up the environment
    2. Setting up the Amazon Web Services CLI
    3. Configuring a Simple Email Service
       1. Registering the emails
    4. Creating an S3 bucket
    5. Implementing the notification service
       1. Email templates
    6. Deploying the application with Zappa
    7. Restricting access to the API's endpoints
    8. Modifying the order service
    9. Testing all the pieces together
    10. Summary
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