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Irv KalbLearn to Program with Python 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3879-0_10

10. Internet Data

Irv Kalb1 
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Mountain View, California, USA
 

In the previous two chapters, we discussed different ways to get and manipulate strings. That makes this our third chapter on strings. Earlier, I talked about how a program can get text input from the user by using a call to input. In the previous chapter, I showed how a program could get data from and save data to a file. But there is another place where programs can get text data from: the Internet!

This chapter discusses the following topics:
  • Request/response model

  • Getting a stock price

  • Pretending to be a browser

  • API

  • Requests with values

  • API Key

  • Example program to get stock price information ...

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