Code review and optimization techniques
Right now, we have code that works, but it’s not optimized. For example, it’s usually a good idea to separate code into different files. Let’s see what Copilot suggests to improve the code.
[Prompt]
Improve the selected code
[End of prompt]
As usual, we get the Copilot chat response in terms of text and code:
[Prompt response]
Sure, here are some improvements you could make to the selected code:
- Use a context manager to handle the database connection and cursor. This ensures that the connection is properly closed when the code is finished executing, even if an exception occurs.
- Use a list comprehension to convert the products to a JSON response. This is more concise and can be faster than using a for loop.
- Use the json parameter of the Response object to return a JSON response. This is more concise than using the jsonify function.
- Use the request.json attribute to retrieve...