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You're reading from Mastering Object-oriented Python If you want to master object-oriented Python programming this book is a must-have. With 750 code samples and a relaxed tutorial, it's a seamless route to programming Python.

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2014

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280971

Length 634 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Object Oriented Programming

Authors (2):

Steven F. Lott

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Mastering Object-oriented Python

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Some Preliminaries

1. The __init__() Method FREE CHAPTER

2. Integrating Seamlessly with Python Basic Special Methods

3. Attribute Access, Properties, and Descriptors

4. The ABCs of Consistent Design

5. Using Callables and Contexts

6. Creating Containers and Collections

7. Creating Numbers

8. Decorators and Mixins – Cross-cutting Aspects

9. Serializing and Saving – JSON, YAML, Pickle, CSV, and XML

10. Storing and Retrieving Objects via Shelve

11. Storing and Retrieving Objects via SQLite

12. Transmitting and Sharing Objects

13. Configuration Files and Persistence

14. The Logging and Warning Modules

15. Designing for Testability

16. Coping With the Command Line

17. The Module and Package Design

18. Quality and Documentation

Index

Using HTTP and REST to transmit objects

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is defined through a series of Request for Comments (RFC) documents. We won't review all of the particulars, but we will touch on three high points.

The HTTP protocol includes requests and replies. A request includes a method, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), some headers, and optional attachments. A number of available methods are defined in the standards. Most browsers focus on making the GET and POST requests. The standard browsers include the GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests, which are the ones that we'll leverage because they correspond to the CRUD operations. We'll ignore most of the headers and focus on the path portion of the URI.

A reply includes a status code number and reason, headers, and some data. There are a variety of status code numbers. Of them, we're interested in just a few. The 200 status code is the generic OK response from a server. A 201 status code is the Created response, which might...