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Python Microservices Development – 2nd edition

You're reading from   Python Microservices Development – 2nd edition Build efficient and lightweight microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801076302
Length 310 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tarek Ziadé Tarek Ziadé
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Tarek Ziadé
Simon Fraser Simon Fraser
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Simon Fraser
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Discovering Quart FREE CHAPTER 3. Coding, Testing, and Documentation: the Virtuous Cycle 4. Designing Jeeves 5. Splitting the Monolith 6. Interacting with Other Services 7. Securing Your Services 8. Making a Dashboard 9. Packaging and Running Python 10. Deploying on AWS 11. What's Next? 12. Other Books You May Enjoy
13. Index

Packaging and Running Python

When the Python programming language was first released in the early 1990s, a Python application was run by pointing the Python scripts to the interpreter. Everything related to packaging, releasing, and distributing Python projects was done manually. There was no real standard back then, and each project had a long README on how to install it with all its dependencies.

Bigger projects used system packaging tools to release their work—whether it was Debian packages, RPM packages for Red Hat Linux distributions, or MSI packages under Windows. Eventually, the Python modules from those projects all ended up in the site-packages directory of the Python installation, sometimes after a compilation phase, if they had a C extension.

The Python packaging ecosystem has evolved a lot since then. In 1998, Distutils was added to the standard library to provide essential support to create installable distributions for Python projects. Since...

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