December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Content preview from Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Preface
REST (short for REpresentational State Transfer) is the architectural style that is driving modern web development and mobile app development. 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 (short for JavaScript Object Notation).
Python is one of the most popular programming languages. Python 3.6 and 3.7 are the most modern versions of Python. Python is open source and multiplatform, and you can use it to develop any kind of application, from websites to extremely complex scientific computing applications. There is ...