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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook The latest in modern Python recipes for the busy modern programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786469250
Length 692 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-in Data Structures – list, set, dict 5. User Inputs and Outputs 6. Basics of Classes and Objects 7. More Advanced Class Design 8. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 9. Testing 10. Web Services 11. Application Integration

Making REST requests with urllib

A web application has two essential parts:

  • A client: This can be a user's browser, but may also be a mobile device app. In some cases, a web server may be a client of other web servers.
  • A server: This provides the web services and resources we've been looking at, in the Implementing web services with WSGI, Using the Flask framework for RESTful APIs, and Parsing the query string in a request recipes, as well as other recipes, such as Parsing a JSON request and Implementing authentication for web services.

A browser-based client will generally be written in JavaScript. Mobile apps are written in a variety of languages, with a focus on Java for Android devices and Objective-C with Swift for iOS devices.

There are several user stories that involve RESTful API clients written in Python. How can we create a Python program that is a client...

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