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Modern Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Cookbook 133 recipes to develop flawless and expressive programs in Python 3.8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800207455
Length 822 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Numbers, Strings, and Tuples 2. Statements and Syntax FREE CHAPTER 3. Function Definitions 4. Built-In Data Structures Part 1: Lists and Sets 5. Built-In Data Structures Part 2: Dictionaries 6. User Inputs and Outputs 7. Basics of Classes and Objects 8. More Advanced Class Design 9. Functional Programming Features 10. Input/Output, Physical Format, and Logical Layout 11. Testing 12. Web Services 13. Application Integration: Configuration 14. Application Integration: Combination 15. Statistical Programming and Linear Regression 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Web Services

Many problems can be solved by offering a centralized software service to a number of remote clients. Since the 90s, this kind of networking has been called the World Wide Web, and the centralized applications are called web services. Web clients have evolved to include browsers, mobile applications, and other web services, creating a sophisticated, interlinked network of computing. Providing a web service involves solving several interrelated problems. The applicable protocols must be followed, each with its own unique design considerations. One of the foundations for providing web services is the various standards that define the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

One of the use cases for HTTP is to provide web services. In this case, the standard HTTP requests and responses will exchange data in formats other than HTML and images preferred by browsers. One of the most popular formats for encoding information is JSON. We looked at processing JSON documents in the...

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