Resources¶
Tools and documentations that we’ll use throughout this tutorial.
venv¶
See also: Python venv tutorial documentation.
It is recommended that you install the Python packages inside a virtual environment.
For this tutorial, we’ll use venv.
Create a new virtual environment using venv:
python3.7 -m venv tutorial-env
Activate the virtual environment. On Unix, Mac OS:
source tutorial-env/bin/activate
On Windows:
tutorial-env\Scripts\activate.bat
GitHub API v3 documentation¶
gidgethub (v 4.1.0 or up)¶
- Installation:
python3.7 -m pip install gidgethub. - gidgethub documentation
- gidgethub source code
- Owner: Brett Cannon
aiohttp¶
- Installation:
python3.7 -m pip install aiohttp. - aiohttp documentation
- aiohttp source code
- Hands-on Intro to aiohttp tutorial from PyCon US
- Owner: Andrew Svetlov
f-strings¶
We will use some f-strings during this tutorial.
My talk about f-strings.
Example:
first_name = "bart"
last_name = "simpson"
# old style %-formatting
print("Hello %s %s" % (first_name, last_name))
# str.format
print("Hello {first_name} {last_name}".format(first_name=first_name, last_name=last_name))
# f-string
print(f"Hello {first_name} {last_name}")
asyncio¶
Both gidgethub and aiohttp are async libraries. Read up the
quick intro
to asyncio.
Heroku¶
Python on Heroku documentation.
