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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 3
Application Integration
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Section 2
Using YAML for Configuration Files
Python offers a variety of ways to package application inputs and configuration files. Let’s look at writing files in YAML notation because it's elegant and simple. This video will show you how you can represent configuration details in YAML notation. - Import the yaml module - Use the yaml.load() function to load the YAML-syntax document