It seems that nearly every application needs to talk to the outside world sooner or later, and your ABQ data entry application is no exception. You've received some new feature requests that will require some interactions with remote servers and services. First, the quality assurance division is doing a study of how local weather conditions are impacting the environmental data in each lab; they've requested a way to download and store local weather data in the database on demand. The second request is from your boss, who is still required to upload daily CSV files to the central corporate servers. She would like this process streamlined and available at a mouse click.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
- Connecting to web services and downloading data using urllib
- Managing more complex HTTP interactions using the requests library...