APIs and API Design with Python

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become increasingly important as they provide developers with connectivity to everything from rich datasets in an array of formats (such as JSON) to exposing the configuration of software applications and network appliances. This class focuses on using Python to interact, design, and build APIs for automated scripting solutions for complex tasks.

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Join an engaging hands-on learning environment, where you’ll learn to:

Develop Python scripts to communicate with RESTful (and non-RESTful) APIs
Design RESTful API interfaces
Use Python to open SSH sessions and pass commands
Move files via SFTP
Parse and manipulate popular data structures (JSON, XML, CSV, and YAML)
Manage errors
Interface with the operating system
Create expressions for parsing

This is a lab-intensive hands-on course with engaging instruction, demos, and discussions.

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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

Before attending this course, you should have:

Basic familiarity with any programming or scripting language

Python Basics

System Administrators, Network Engineers, and Developers

Python for Network Automation

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