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Python Real-World Projects

By : Steven F. Lott
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Book Image

Python Real-World Projects

5 (1)
By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

In today's competitive job market, a project portfolio often outshines a traditional resume. Python Real-World Projects empowers you to get to grips with crucial Python concepts while building complete modules and applications. With two dozen meticulously designed projects to explore, this book will help you showcase your Python mastery and refine your skills. Tailored for beginners with a foundational understanding of class definitions, module creation, and Python's inherent data structures, this book is your gateway to programming excellence. You’ll learn how to harness the potential of the standard library and key external projects like JupyterLab, Pydantic, pytest, and requests. You’ll also gain experience with enterprise-oriented methodologies, including unit and acceptance testing, and an agile development approach. Additionally, you’ll dive into the software development lifecycle, starting with a minimum viable product and seamlessly expanding it to add innovative features. By the end of this book, you’ll be armed with a myriad of practical Python projects and all set to accelerate your career as a Python programmer.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

12.5 Extras

Here are some ideas for you to add to these projects.

12.5.1 Add filtering criteria to the POST request

The POST request that initiates acquire processing is quite complicated. See A POST request starts processing to see the processing it does.

We might name the function for this route creation_job_post() to make it clear that this creates jobs to acquire data in response to an HTTP POST request.

The list of tasks in this function includes the following:

  1. Check the user’s permissions.

  2. Validate the parameters.

  3. Build an AcquireJob instance with the parameters.

  4. Update the AcquireJob instance with the Future object. The future will evaluate the acquire_series() function that does the work of acquiring and cleaning the data.

  5. Return a JSON object with details of the submitted job, as well as headers and a status code to redirect to a request to get the job’s status.

Some RESTful APIs will have even more complicated parameters. For example, users may...