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Modular Programming with Python

You're reading from   Modular Programming with Python Introducing modular techniques for building sophisticated programs using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884481
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Erik Westra Erik Westra
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Preface 1. Introducing Modular Programming 2. Writing Your First Modular Program FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Modules and Packages 4. Using Modules for Real-World Programming 5. Working with Module Patterns 6. Creating Reusable Modules 7. Advanced Module Techniques 8. Testing and Deploying Modules 9. Modular Programming as a Foundation for Good Programming Technique Index

Examples of reusable modules


You don't have to look very far to find examples of reusable modules; the Python Package Index (https://pypi.python.org/pypi) provides a huge repository of shared modules and packages. You can search for a package by name or keyword, or you can browse through the repository by topic, license, intended audience, development status, and so on.

While the Python Package Index is huge, it is also extremely useful: all of the most successful packages and modules are included. Let's look more closely at some of these more popular reusable packages.

requests

The requests library (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/) is a Python package that makes it easy to send HTTP requests to remote servers and process the response. While the urllib2 package included in the Python Standard Library does allow you to make HTTP requests, it is often difficult to use and fails in unexpected ways. The requests package is far easier to use and more reliable; as a result, it has become...

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