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Product type Course

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789953299

Length 796 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Django

Concepts

Responsive Web Development

Authors (3):

Fabrizio Romano

Gaston C. Hillar

Arun Ravindran

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Table of Contents (33) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. A Gentle Introduction to Python

2. Built-in Data Types FREE CHAPTER

3. Iterating and Making Decisions

4. Functions, the Building Blocks of Code

5. Saving Time and Memory

6. OOP, Decorators, and Iterators

7. Files and Data Persistence

8. Testing, Profiling, and Dealing with Exceptions

9. Concurrent Execution

10. Debugging and Troubleshooting

11. Installing the Required Software and Tools

12. Working with Models, Migrations, Serialization, and Deserialization

13. Creating API Views

14. Using Generalized Behavior from the APIView Class

15. Understanding and Customizing the Browsable API Feature

16. Using Constraints, Filtering, Searching, Ordering, and Pagination

17. Securing the API with Authentication and Permissions

18. Applying Throttling Rules and Versioning Management

19. Automating Tests

20. Solutions

21. Templates

22. Admin Interface

23. Forms

24. Security

25. Working Asynchronously

26. Creating APIs

27. Production-Ready

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Chapter 11. Installing the Required Software and Tools

In this chapter, we will start our journey towards creating RESTful Web Services with Python and its most popular web framework: Django. Python is one of the most popular and versatile programming languages. There are thousands of Python packages, which allow you to extend Python capabilities to any kind of domain you can imagine. You can work with Django and packages to easily build simple and complex RESTful Web Services with Python that can run on your favorite platform.

We will leverage your existing knowledge of Python and all of its packages to code the different pieces of your RESTful Web Services and their ecosystem. We will use object-oriented features to create code that is easier to maintain, understand, and reuse. We don't need to learn another programming language, we can use the one we already know and love: Python.

In this chapter, we will install and configure the environments and the required software and tools to create...

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