API Design with Python

Python Review

• 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

OS Interfacing

• 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)

Web and RESTful APIs

• 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

Python Protocol Clients

• 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, YAML, XML, CSV and Excel

• 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

Generating and Sending Emails

• Overview of email modules
• Creating simple emails
• Interfacing with your email account

Dates and Times

• Python and Cron
• Import time and time.time()
• Suspending with sleep()
• Dealing with time
• Time formatting
• Time tuples
• Creating Calendars

Python Regular Expression (Regex)

• 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

Code Review

• Best practice
• Using pylint
• Conventions
• Underscore
• Double underscore
• Monkey Patching

Web API Design with Flask

• 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

SQLlite

• Overview
• Connecting to Python
• Read / Write operations
• Other useful instructions
• Connecting APIs and SQLite
• Reading and Writing to Databases with APIs

Processes and Threads

• Threading
• Context change
• Deadlock errors
• Thread starvation
• Racing conditions and racing specifics
• Working with Locks

Running Python Scripts with Crontab

• Scheduling Python scripts
• Crontab “gotchas”

Logging API Behavior

• Logging APIs
• Using Pythons log library
• Troubleshooting APIs

Packaging Python Projects

• Building a project
• Uploading to pypi.org

Swagger

• Documenting APIs
• Sec v3.0 vs v2.0
• Swagger Hub
• Group collaboration

Django

• Macro vs Micro frameworks
• Creating an API with Django toolkit
• Django vs Flask