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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 configurability of software applications and network appliances.

APIs and API Design with Python

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Course Objectives

Lessons and labs focus on using Python to interact, design, and build APIs for the purposes of scripting automated solutions to complex tasks. Class is mostly live demonstrations and hands on labs.

Course Outline

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

Labs

Lab 1 – Using vim

Lab 2 – Making a Github account

Lab 3 – Getting dir(obj) help() and pydoc

Lab 4 – Lists

Lab 5 – Dictionaries

Lab 6 – Python Data to JSON file

Lab 7 – Python Data to YAML file

Lab 8 – import time

Lab 9 – List and Dict Modeling

Lab 10 – try and except

Lab 11 – Construct a SimpleHTTPServer and HTTP Client

Lab 12 – RESTful Open APIs

Lab 13 – APIs and JSON Decode

Lab 14 – requests library

Lab 15 – APIs and Dev Keys

Lab 16 – RESTful APIs and Dev Keys

Lab 17 – getpass – Secure Password Retrieval

Lab 18 – Paramiko SFTP with UN and PW

Lab 19 – Paramiko SSH with RSA

Lab 20 – Scripting Commands over SSH

Lab 21 – Argument Parsing

Lab 22 – Making Excel Sheets

Lab 23 – Reading Excel Sheets

Lab 24 – Timestamping Data

Lab 25 – API Tokens and Subjects

Lab 26 – RegEx to Check IP Address

Lab 27 – Use RegEx to Search Text

Lab 28 – Search and Replace Data

Lab 29 – Compiling Search Objects

Lab 30 – Testing of a Match Exists

Lab 31 – Getting sorted()

Lab 32 – Sort Stability and Complex Sorts

Lab 33 – CSV data

Lab 34 – Unpacking Arguments

Lab 35 – XML Parsing with ElementTree

Lab 36 – Automating SMTP and Extended SMTP (Email)

Lab 37 – Archive with zipfile

Lab 38 – Building APIs with Python

Lab 39 – Flask APIs and Jinja2

Lab 40 – Flask APIs and Cookies

Lab 41 – Flask Sessions

Lab 42 – Flask Redirection and Errors

Lab 43 – Flask Uploading Files

Lab 44 – Connecting an API to a Database

Lab 45 – Learning sqlite3

Lab 46 – Tracking API Data with sqlite3

Lab 47 – Tracking Inventory with sqlite

Lab 48 – Working with Threads

Prerequisites

Recommended Prerequisite: Python Basics (5 days) Coding experience in another language serves as an adequate prerequisite
System administrators, network engineers, and developers will find this course compelling as they build and interact APIs that not only return highly parsable datasets, but also trigger scripted actions. Some previous experience with Python is ideal, although, coding experience in another language is also enough to find success within this course.

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