Summary
In this chapter, we have learned a lot about some non-Tkinter technologies which can be used to supplement a GUI application.
We learned how to set up a very basic web service using the flask
module. We know how to create URL routes using the app.route
decorator and have learned how to handle both GET and POST requests. We also had an introduction to JSON as a portable way of sending information back to a client.
The SQLite database technology has been explored and we know how to create databases in our filesystem. We have practiced querying them and seen some basic SQL statement syntax. We have learned both how to put information into a database table and how to retrieve it again. We also saw that we can use the Row
class to get information as a dictionary, which is often preferable to the standard tuple responses.
We have looked at sending GET and POST requests using the requests
module. We have seen how to send data over to an endpoint, as well as parse the response with either r...