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Python Requests: Exercises, Practice, Solution

Python Requests [9 exercises with solution]

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Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings. Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There's no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic.

1. Write a Python program to find the Requests module – version, licence, copyright information, author, author email, document url, title and description. Go to the editor
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2. Write a Python program to check the status code issued by a server in response to a client's request made to the server. Print all of the methods and attributes available to objects on a successful request. Go to the editor
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3. Write a Python program to send a request to a web page, and print the response text and content. Also get the raw socket response from the server. Go to the editor
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4. Write a Python program to send a request to a web page, and print the header information. Also parse these values and print key-value pairs holding various information. Go to the editor
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5. Write a Python program to send a request to a web page, and print the JSON value of the response. Print each key value in the response. Go to the editor
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6. Write a Python program to send a request to a web page and stop waiting for a response after a given number of seconds. If a request times out, raise a Timeout exception. Go to the editor
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7. Write a Python program to send some sort of data in the URL’s query string. Go to the editor
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8. Write a Python program to send cookies to a given server and access cookies from the response of a server. Go to the editor
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9. Write a Python program to verify the SSL certificate for a website that is certified. Go to the editor
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Python: Tips of the Day

Chunks a list into smaller lists of a specified size:

Example:

from math import ceil

def tips_chunk(lst, size):
  return list(
    map(lambda x: lst[x * size:x * size + size],
      list(range(0, ceil(len(lst) / size)))))

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Output:

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