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Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By : Steven F. Lott
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Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]

By: Steven F. Lott

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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.

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Modern Python Solutions - Part 3 [Video]
Steven F. Lott
Mar, 2017 | 3 hours 24 minutes
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Table of Contents (3 chapters)
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1
Testing
The Course Overview
Using docstring for Testing
Testing Functions that Raise Exceptions
Handling Common doctest Issues
Creating Separate Test Modules and Packages
Combining the unittest and doctest Tests
Testing Things that Involve Dates and Time
Testing Things That Involve Randomness
Mocking External Resources
2
Web Services
Implementing Web Services with WSGI
Using the Flask Framework for RESTful APIs
Parsing the Query String in a Request
Making REST Requests Using urllib
Parsing the URL Path
Parsing a JSON Request
Implementing Authentications for Web Services
3
Application Integration
Finding Configuration Files
Using YAML for Configuration Files
Using Python for Configuration Files
Using Logging for Control and Audit Output
Combining Two Applications into One
Combining Many Applications Using the Command Design Pattern
Controlling Complex Sequences of Steps
Chapter 2
Web Services
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Section 5
Parsing the URL Path
The path to a resource can be quite complex. It's common in RESTful web services to use the path information to identify groups of resources, individual resources, and even relationships among resources. How can we handle complex path parsing? Let’s answer this question. - Import HTTPStatus and the additional modules - Define a global state, a route, and a view function - Define a main program that runs the server
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