Python: XML, JSON, and the Web

Learn how to use Python to send, retrieve, and deliver data, such as XML and JSON, over the web.

Introduction

• Looking at Python, XML, JSON, and the web
• What you should know

1. Overview

• Working with internet data
• Quick overview of XML
• Quick overview of JSON
• Internet data Python modules
• Using httpbin.org

2. Accessing the Internet

• Introducing urllib
• Retrieving data
• Sending data with urllib
• Handling errors
• Drawbacks of urllib

3. Using the Requests Library

• Overview of the Requests library
• Retrieve and send data
• Handling errors
• Using authentication

4. Working with JSON

• The Python JSON module
• Parsing and serializing JSON
• JSON exception handling
• Requests and JSON

5. Simple XML Parsing

• XML parsing models
• The SAX API
• Using the xml.sax module

6. XML DOM Parsing

• The XML DOM
• Using xml.dom.minidom
• The ElementTree API
• Using lxml

Conclusion

• Next steps