Python has many remarkable web frameworks to choose from. Sanic is another excellent web framework and one of the first to support async programming. Sanic is built to be able to build fast and run fast. In this episode, we talk to Adam Hopkins, one of the maintainers of the Sanic web framework. We discuss the following […]
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Learn about some of the many Python web frameworks that are available to you in this video. Web frameworks mentioned in this video Django – https://www.djangoproject.com/ Flask – https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/ Pyramid – https://trypyramid.com/ FastAPI – https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/ CherryPy – https://docs.cherrypy.dev/en/latest/ TurboGears – https://turbogears.org/ Web2py – http://www.web2py.com/ Bottle – https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ Python Content Management Systems Plone – https://plone.org/ Django
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In our last article, we added a database to our Flask web application, but didn’t have a way to add anything to our database. We also didn’t have a way to view anything, so basically we ended up having a pretty useless web application. This article will take the time to teach you how to
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Last time we learned how to get Flask set up. In this article we will learn how to add a database to our music data website. As you might recall, Flask is a micro-web-framework. That means it doesn’t come with an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) like Django does. If you want to add database interactivity,
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The Flask 101 series is my attempt at learning the Flask microframework for Python. For those who haven’t heard of it, Flask is micro web framework for creating web applications in Python. According to their website, Flask is based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. For this series of articles, I wanted to create
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Web scraping is where a programmer will write an application to download web pages and parse out specific information from them. Usually when you are scraping data you will need to make your application navigate the website programmatically. In this chapter, we will learn how to download files from the internet and parse them if
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I recently took on a project where I needed to graph some data on a webpage using data I had queried from a database. Since I love Python, I decided to use it to accomplish this task. I went with Flask for serving the webpage and pygal for creating the graphs. In this tutorial, I
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Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of the eBook version of Flask Framework Cookbook by Shalabh Aggarwal. I didn’t read it in its entirety as Cookbooks don’t usually make for a very interesting linear read. I just went through it and cherry picked various recipes. But before I get into too much detail, let’s
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I don’t do a lot of plotting in my job, but I recently heard about a website called Plotly that provides a plotting service for anyone’s data. They even have a plotly package for Python (among others)! So in this article we will be learning how to plot with their package. Let’s have some fun
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One of my readers suggested that I should try logging my data to a web service called Loggly. As I understand it, Loggly is a way to share log data with everyone in a business so that you no longer need to log in to individual machines. They also provide graphs, filters and searches of
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I’ve been hearing some buzz about a newish web service called Twilio which allows you to send SMS and MMS messages among other things. There’s a handy Python wrapper to their REST API as well. If you sign up with Twilio, they will give you a trial account without even requiring you to provide a
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Last night I received an email about a new Python-related Kickstarter. The Real Python crew added a new author to write a book entirely about Django 1.6. This is a subject that I keep meaning to get into and haven’t had the opportunity to do so. Hopefully by backing this project, I’ll finally learn Django.
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Today we’ll be looking at how to acquire data from the popular movie site, Rotten Tomatoes. To follow along, you’ll want to sign up for an API key here. When you get your key, make a note of your usage limit, if there is one. You don’t want to do too many calls to their
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In this article we will be taking the code from the previous article on Bottle and changing it such that it uses SQLAlchemy instead of just normal SQLite code. This will require you to download the bottle-sqlalchemy package from PyPI. You can also install it using “pip install bottle-sqlalchemy”, assuming you have pip installed. You
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Python has lots of web frameworks. Bottle is one of them and is considered a WSGI Framework. It’s also sometimes called a “micro-framework”, probably because Bottle consists of just one Python file and has no dependencies besides Python itself. I’ve been trying to learn it and I was using the official Todo-list tutorial on their
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