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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By : Alessandro Molina
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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

By: Alessandro Molina

Overview of this book

The Python 3 Standard Library is a vast array of modules that you can use for developing various kinds of applications. It contains an exhaustive list of libraries, and this book will help you choose the best one to address specific programming problems in Python. The Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook begins with recipes on containers and data structures and guides you in performing effective text management in Python. You will find Python recipes for command-line operations, networking, filesystems and directories, and concurrent execution. You will learn about Python security essentials in Python and get to grips with various development tools for debugging, benchmarking, inspection, error reporting, and tracing. The book includes recipes to help you create graphical user interfaces for your application. You will learn to work with multimedia components and perform mathematical operations on date and time. The recipes will also show you how to deploy different searching and sorting algorithms on your data. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills needed to write clean code in Python and develop applications that meet your needs.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Web Development

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Treating JSON—how to parse and write JSON objects
  • Parsing URLs—how to parse the path, query, and other parts of a URL
  • Consuming HTTP—how to read data from an HTTP endpoint
  • Submitting forms to HTTP—how to POST HTML forms to an HTTP endpoint
  • Building HTML—how to generate HTML with proper escaping
  • Serving HTTP—serving dynamic content over HTTP
  • Serving static files—how to serve static files over HTTP
  • Errors in web applications—how to report errors in web applications
  • Handling forms and files—parsing data received from HTML forms and uploaded files
  • REST API—serving a basic REST/JSON API
  • Handling cookies—how to handle cookies to identify a returning user