Chapter 23. Miscellaneous

In this chapter, we will give brief preview introductions to miscellaneous areas of Python programming we did not have time to explore more fully. We hope to eventually develop these into full chapters for future editions of this book.

23.1 Web Services

There are many Web services and applications on the Net, providing a wide variety of services. You will find application programmer interfaces (APIs) from most of the big players today, i.e., Yahoo!, Google, eBay, and Amazon, to name a few. In the past, APIs have been used just to access data using these ...

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