Setting up the environment

The first thing we have to do is, as usual, set up our development environment and the first step is to create a virtual environment for our application. Our application will be called twittervotes, so let's go ahead and create a virtual environment called twittervotes:

When the virtualenv environment has been created, you can activate it with the following command:

. twittervotes/bin/activate

Great! Now let's set up the project's directory structure. It should look like the following:

twittervotes
├── core
│   ├── models
│   └── twitter
└── templates

Let's dive into the structure a bit:

twittervotes	The application's root directory. Here, we will create the application's entry point as well as a small helper application to perform the Twitter authentication.
twittervotes/core	This will contain all the core functionality of our project. It will contain the code to authenticate, read config files, send requests to the Twitter API, and so on.
twittervotes/core/models	Directory...