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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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A Functional Approach to Web Services

We'll step away from the topic of Exploratory Data Analysis to look at web servers and web services. A web server is, to an extent, a cascade of functions. We can apply a number of functional design patterns to the problem of presenting web content. Our goal is to look at ways in which we can approach Representational State Transfer (REST). We want to build RESTful web services using functional design patterns.

We don't need to invent yet another Python web framework. Nor do we want to select from among the available frameworks. There are many web frameworks available in Python, each with a distinct set of features and advantages.

The intent of this chapter is to present some principles that can be applied ...

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