Connecting to the Cloud
It seems that nearly every application needs to talk to the outside world sooner or later, and your ABQ Data Entry application is no exception. You've received some new feature requests that will require some interactions with remote servers and services.
First, the quality assurance division is doing a study of how local weather conditions are impacting the environmental data in each lab; they've requested a way to download and store local weather data in the database on demand. The second request is from your manager, who is still required to upload daily CSV files to the central corporate servers. She would like this process streamlined and available at a mouse click.
In this chapter, you will learn to interface with the cloud in the following topics:
- In HTTP using urllib, you'll connect to web services and download data using
urllib. - In RESTful HTTP using requests, you'll learn to interact with REST services...
