Python Programming Blueprints

Setting up the environment

The first thing we have to do is, as usual, set up our development environment and the first step is to create a virtual environment for our application. Our application will be called twittervotes, so let's go ahead and create a virtual environment called twittervotes:

When the virtualenv environment has been created, you can activate it with the following command:

. twittervotes/bin/activate

Great! Now let's set up the project's directory structure. It should look like the following:

twittervotes├── core│   ├── models│   └── twitter└── templates

Let's dive into the structure a bit:

twittervotes

The application's ...