APIs And API Design With Python Training

Lists

Dictionaries

Tuples

Conditionals (if, elif, else)

Loops (for and when)

Functions

Variable Scope - Review

Converting boiler plate code to functional code

Writing Functions (reusable code)

Using pip

Useful 3rd party modules

Publishing a module

Documenting modules

Operating System interfacing with OS module

OS module - listdir(), getcwd(), mkdir()

Common sys Module Attributes & Methods

Working With the os Module & Files/Directories

Walking File Trees with os.walk()

File, Path and Directory Examples

Working with os.path

os & os.path Module Examples

Environmental Variables

Running Shell Commands

Compressing and archiving (gzip, tar, zip)

REST

REST APIS and HTTP CRUD

REST and OpenStack

URI analysis and formation

Wireshark capturing

cURL

Etcd keystore

Creating a Python client to interact with API endpoints

API dev keys

SSH and Python

Secure password retrieval

Tokens and APIs

Scripting the browser

Scripting with HTTP

Creating an HTTP Client & Server

Python and SSH

Building an SFTP Client & Server

Python and SFTP limitations

Paramiko for SSH

Netmiko and Major Network Vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)

JSON RFC 7159

JSON Formatting

YAML intro

YAML lists

YAML dictionaries

YAML line spanning

Reading YAML is easy

XML

CSV

Import json

Import yaml

Decoding json and yaml to use

Using python to decode data structures like YAML, XML, CSV, and JSON

Reading from Excel

Writing to Excel

Overview of email modules

Creating simple emails

Interfacing with your email account

Python and Cron

Import time and time.time()

Suspending with sleep()

Dealing with time

Time formatting

Time tuples

Creating Calendars

Metacharacter review

Re modules

search() and match()

findall()

Compiling regex search patterns

Creating highly efficient searches

Sorting data sets

Complex sorts

sort() vs sorted()

Sorting with functions

Applying Regex to file searches

Applying Regex to API results

Best practice

Using pylint

Conventions

Underscore

Double underscore

Monkey Patching

Flask Overview

Decorators

Building APIs with Python and Flask

APIs returning Jinja2 templating

Returning a ‘cookie’

Building Sessions

Redirecting from URIs

Build an API to accept a file upload

Overview

Connecting to Python

Read / Write operations

Other useful instructions

Connecting APIs and SQLite

Reading and Writing to Databases with APIs

Threading

Context change

Deadlock errors

Thread starvation

Racing conditions and racing specifics

Working with Locks