On 07/11/2018 07:55 AM, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I would like to ask what for recommendations on books/resources to learn > python to build a payment processor. I need to understand how python works > with databases, user authentication and how a user can have an account page > to view all his details; something like you would see when you login to your > Paypal account. I am building a payment processor for cryptocurrencies. I am > a newbie, but know very basic Python, applied to math. Should I learn to use > Django to do this project, is it necessary? > thanks a lot,
Hi Anil. Python has a kind of motto: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/) The thing is, when "it" is a complex concept -- and "payment processing" certainly is that (you've listed several high-level issues already) -- you end up not being able to simply apply that. There are a lot of ways to deal with the payment processing topic. Normally the advice would be to decompose your problem into rather distinct chunks, and see what looks like a good choice for each (including the "build or buy" decision, although here by "buy" I only mean pick up some existing implementation). You listed some of those - database, auth, web interface, account managment, but probably need to break it down further. Django is a powerful and wonderful system; however the one time I worked with it on a paid project where a book author wanted a system to order and sell her book, the existing payment-processing modules nearly drove me insane with all the quirks I ran into. Since then I've spewed a good amount of possible unjustified hate for Django. If you've done this many times it's probably a trivial exercise. Probably today's code is more mature when I did this. etc. All I'm saying is Django may, or may not, be your magic bullet. Or it may be overkill for what you need - we can't tell. There's a Udemy course on this topic - I don't know if it's of interest to pay a bit of money to look at it and see if there's a fit based on what they have to present (I'm sure there are many other options, some not pay-for): https://www.udemy.com/learn-django-code-accept-payments-with-stripe/ Meanwhile, it turns out I have Jeff Knupp's site bookmarked because I like the way he explains at least some of the topics he takes on, and he's got one on payment processing too: https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/01/18/python-and-flask-are-ridiculously-powerful/ I've mentioned three scenarios here because (a) I fell in this hole myself once, and (b) I happen to have seen the two links in the course of other searching. I bet there's a ton of resources for this on the Internet because, well, there are an awful lot of people who want to figure out how to get paid without irritating their customers in the process! The bottom line is... there's probably not one place you can go which will teach you exactly what you need to know for this idea, and nothing more. But there are a ton of resources that will edge you in that direction. Including this list - if you get to the point where you have specific Python questions to ask. Best of luck! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
