What Is A Virtual Environment ? A virtual environment is a Python environment such that the Python interpreter, libraries and scripts installed into it are isolated from those installed in other virtual environments, and (by default) any libraries installed in a “system” Python, i.e., one which is installed as part of your operating system. In […]
What Is Flask ? It’s a micro framework for writing web applications based on Python. Why Micro ? Flask provides everything you need to build a full fledged web application but leaves the users with flexibility of choice regarding different components they want to use such as database, template engines & so no. What Is […]
What Is SQLAlchemy ? SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language. You can read more […]
Django follows the 3 tier MVT architecture where Model contains real world objects View contains the business logic and Template contains the frontend code. As with any other web application framework, Django provides a project structure to get you started. The article is intended to explain some of these files and their purpose. Project Specific […]
If you haven’t yet read my Getting Started With Django post, I suggest you take a look at it first. So, you’ve decided to start web app development using Python and have chosen Django as your framework, good choice 🙂 Here are the basics on how to setup things if this is your first ever […]
NOTHING IN PYTHON IS “REALLY” PRIVATE As a python programmer the above line should be remembered like a gospel. Python is a adult consulting language where you leave the locks on your door open. Python puts more belief in the users of your APIs and trusts them to not use them moronically and 99.99% people […]
One of the major reasons for the rise in popularity of Python is the availability of a large number of packages developed by the community which cater to a variety of requirements ranging from simple tasks of processing excels to more complicated ones like implementing a complex machine learning algorithm. Even though Python comes in […]
Errors and Exceptions The General Picture A big part of writing software is being able write proper exceptions and return meaningful data back to the user which explains what went wrong so that they can take proper action and avoid the mistake in future executions. Why is Exception Handling Necessary ? A simple answer to […]
Functions in any language are used to group code that is intended to perform a repetitive task. They are integral part of any programming and Python is no different, you can write functions here as well. The underlying idea is the same as any other programming language with minor difference in syntax of declaring, defining […]
The article will cater to basics of the if-else, for loop and while loop concepts in Python. It’s target audience is freshers, people who are new to Python but have some programming background or seasoned professionals looking to brush up their concepts. Since there is not much to write about the concepts in a theoretical […]
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