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Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By : Steven F. Lott
Book Image

Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By: Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Python is the preferred choice of developers, engineers, data scientists, and hobbyists everywhere. It is a great scripting language that can power your applications and provide great speed, safety, and scalability. By exposing Python as a series of simple recipes, you can gain insight into specific language features in a particular context. This video will arm you with the knowledge of creating applications with flexible logging, powerful configuration, and command-line options, automated unit tests, and good documentation. You will learn to use the Flask framework for Restful APIs. You will end the course equipped with the knowledge of testing, web services, and configuration and application integration tips and tricks.
Table of Contents (3 chapters)
Chapter 2
Web Services
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Section 4
Making REST Requests Using urllib
There are several user stories that involve RESTful API clients written in Python. How can we create a Python program that is a client of RESTful web services? Let’s see this. - Import the urllib components that are required - Define the query string that will be used and use the query to build the pieces of the full URL - Build a final Request instance and open a context to process the response