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Learn Python Programming

Learn Python Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger
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Learn Python Programming

Learn Python Programming

3.5 (2)
By: Fabrizio Romano, Heinrich Kruger

Overview of this book

Learn Python Programming, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to Python programming, covering fundamental concepts and practical applications. This edition has been meticulously updated to include the latest features from Python versions 3.9 to 3.12, new chapters on type hinting and CLI applications, and updated examples reflecting modern Python web development practices. This Python book empowers you to take ownership of writing your software and become independent in fetching the resources you need. By the end of this book, you will have a clear idea of where to go and how to build on what you have learned from the book. Through examples, the book explores a wide range of applications and concludes by building real-world Python projects based on the concepts you have learned. This Python book offers a clear and practical guide to mastering Python and applying it effectively in various domains, such as data science, web development, and automation.
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The railway API

Now that we have a working knowledge of what an API is, let us turn to something more concrete.

Before we show you the code, allow us to stress that this code is not production-ready, as that would have been too long and needlessly complex for a book’s chapter. However, this code is fully functional, and it should provide you with a good starting point to learn more, especially if you experiment with it. We will leave suggestions on how to do so at the end of this chapter.

We have a database with some entities that model a railway application. We want to allow an external system to perform CRUD operations on the database, so we are going to write an API to serve as the interface to it.

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. These are the four basic database operations. Many HTTP services also model CRUD operations through REST or REST-like APIs.

Let us start by looking at the project files, so you will have an idea of where...

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