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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition
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Functional Python Programming - Second Edition

by Steven F. Lott
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
10h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Summary

In this chapter, we looked at ways in which we can apply functional design to the problem of serving content with REST-based web services. We looked at the ways that the WSGI standard leads to somewhat functional overall applications. We also looked at how we can embed a more functional design into a WSGI context by extracting elements from the request for use by our application functions.

For simple services, the problem often decomposes into three distinct operations: getting the data, searching or filtering, and then serializing the results. We tackled this with three functions: raw_data(), anscombe_filter(), and serialize(). We wrapped these functions in a simple WSGI-compatible application to divorce the web services from the ...

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