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Python

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Python course suggestion - scraping

I've really enjoyed the python courses and I'm looking forward to the next one - testing which I think is perfect and that is definitely the next thing needed.

In case you suggestions from users are useful on what courses to do - could I suggest something on scraping. (beautiful soup, requests etc.., working with JSON , xml etc...). This is definitely a key area for any web developer so I'm sure would be a big benefit to lots of your users.

(Beyond that... hmmm maybe something on making (RESTful) API's?)

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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
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Well, have I got a link for you.

Web scraping and APIs are both coming, just not sure exactly when. They're both important but there are some topics that are in higher demand that'll probably be covered first.

Kenneth Love
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Claudia Flores-Saviaga just like before, they'll be coming eventually but other stuff has higher priorities. The API courses will be coming before the scraping, though.

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Sue Dough
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+1000000

I will be looking else where if this doesn't come out soon.

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Oh I didn't know there was such a link and a vote system. (great to see) Yes intro to Django definitely has to be there at one point and definitely something on hosting (so could we broaden the google app engine one a bit?).

Will you cover use of decorators in the testing course at all?

Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
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Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
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No, there aren't any decorators in the testing course (testing decorators? The only decorators in the unittest framework are the ones for marking tests to skip or expect failures on). GAE is a tricky one because a) I haven't used it much; and b) it doesn't support Python 3 yet. It'll come eventually but it's a long way out.

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Ah see that you have multiple proposals for hosting/deploying etc... so that covers it.

I've voted for web scraping.

Thanks.

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(Sorry can't see an option to reply to your reply).

Thanks I just meant pretty much that which you mentioned, for decorators - as part of the toolkit in testing - timing, type enforcement etc - but not the most important thing. . But I now see you course topics covers the key things, unit tests, TDD etc...