I719 Fundamentals of Python/lecture4

Exceptions

this is a good overview:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/errors.html

TASK 1

print out bitcoin price in console for EUR.

Example output

1064.4876

install requests

pip3 install requests

use requests

import requests

# make an HTTP GET request, and assign 'r' to response object
r = requests.get(my_url)

# convert response to python types, if response is JSON, and assign to 'data'
data = r.json()

my_dict = {'bpi': []}
# access value for key 'bpi'
my_dict['bpi']
print(my_dict['bpi'])

MAKE A WEBSITE

• Django
• Flask
• Bottle
• Falcon

pip3 install django
python3 -m django startproject first_website
cd first_website/first_website
touch views.py

cd ../ # go back to the original first website dir
python3 manage.py runserver

Add a view
first_website/first_website/view.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def my_view(request):
    return HttpResponse('hi')

Add the view to the urls
first_website/first_website/view.py

from first_website.views import my_view

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url('$', my_view)
]

Running an interactive shell with django

python3 manage.py shell
get a nicer shell
pip3 install ipython

Query string

http://google.com/?q=1

the query string is converted to a dictionary like object available as the property GET of the request object

Task 2

Make a page that gives the bitcoin price in euros

Solution

import requests

from django.http import HttpResponse

def my_view(request):
    # NOTE: requests with an 's' is the library
    r = requests.get('https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json')
    data = r.json()
    price = data['bpi']['EUR']['rate']
    response = HttpResponse(price)
    return response