#52 Call your APIs with uplink and test them in the tavern

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Brian #1: Restful API testing with Tavern

Michael #2: Uplink

• RESTful client API via decorators
• Create a class to represent the API
• Add methods with arguments, map to API calls.
• e.g.

    @get("/users/{username}")
    def get_user(self, username):
       """Get a single user."""        

• Uplink includes support for concurrent requests with asyncio (for Python 3.4+)
• Twisted (for all supported Python versions)
• Not production ready, but very exciting.

Brian #3: Using json-schema for REST API endpoint tests

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Michael #4: Live coding to music!

• via Ian Watt
• Talk at PyCon UK by Ryan Kirkbride called “Programming Music for Performance: Live coding with FoxDot”

Brian #5: Weekly Python Chat

Michael #6: 10 common beginner mistakes in Python

• Via checkIO: https://py.checkio.org/

1. Incorrect indentation, tabs and spaces
2. Using a Mutable Value as a Default Value
3. Write a lot of comments and docstrings
4. Scoping
5. Edge cases first (let’s go easy on the indents)
6. Copying
7. Creating count-by-one errors on loops (range is half closed)
8. Wrong capitalization
9. Using class variables incorrectly

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