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Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators
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Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

by Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
January 2019
Beginner
318 pages
8h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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SOAP and REST API Communication

In this chapter, we will look at SOAP and REST API basics. We will also look at the Python libraries for SOAP and REST APIs. We are going to learn about the Zeep library for SOAP and requests for REST API. You will learn to work with the JSON data. We are going to see simple examples of working with JSON data, such as converting JSON strings into Python objects and converting Python objects into JSON strings.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • What is SOAP?
  • Using libraries for SOAP
  • What is a RESTful API?
  • Using standard libraries for RESTful API
  • Working with JSON data
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