Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Type python at a command prompt (or in Applications/Utilities/Terminal, in OS X)."

A block of code is set as follows:

from django.http import HttpResponse
def hello(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello world")

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Python 2.7.5 (default, June 27 2015, 13:20:20)
[GCC x.x.x] on xxx Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. ...

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