Python Programming Blueprints

Setting up the environment

Let's start by creating the folder in which we will place the application files. First, create a directory called notifier and go into that directory so we can create the virtual environment:

mkdir notifier && cd notifier

We create the virtual environment using pipenv:

pipenv --python ~/Installs/Python3.6/bin/python3.6

Remember that if Python 3 is in our path, you can simply call:

pipenv --three

To build this service we are going to use the micro web framework Flask, so let's install that:

pipenv install flask

We are also going to install the requests package, which will be used when sending requests to the order service:

pipenv install requests

That should be everything we need for now. Next, we are going to see ...