Building RESTful Python Web Services

Preface

REST (Representational State Transfer) is the architectural style that is driving modern web development and mobile apps. In fact, developing and interacting with RESTful Web Services is a required skill in any modern software development job. Sometimes, you have to interact with an existing API and in other cases, you have to design a RESTful API from scratch and make it work with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).

Python is one of the most popular programming languages. Python 3.5 is the most modern version of Python. It is open source, multiplatform, and you can use it to develop any kind of application, from websites to extremely complex scientific computing applications. There is always a Python package that makes things easier for ...