Last part of articles about the Microsoft's Python for Beginners series.
All the examples from the playlist are available in this GitHub repository: Python Examples.

Objective

You will learn how to make connect with web APIs, manipulate dictionaries, read environment variables and use decorators.
A Python file was created to demonstrate each example.

Topics

• api/post.py
• dictionary.py
• keys.py
• decorators.py

api/post.py

Making a POST request to a web API.
The example file was created inside of a folder named api.

First, install the requests library:

pip install requests

The result will be:

Then, run this command:

python .\examples\api\post.py

The result will be:

dictionary.py

Creating and manipulating dictionaries.

Executing the command below:

python .\examples\dictionary.py

The result is:

keys.py

Reading environment variables.

Create a .env file containing a secret key.

Update the requirements.txt file by adding python-dotenv.

Let's use a virtual environment again by executing the commands below:

python -m venv venv

.\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Install the python_dotenv package inside the venv:

pip install -r requirements.txt

The result will be:

Finally, run this command:

python .\examples\keys.py

The result will be:

decorators.py

How to use decorators in functions.

Run the command:

python .\examples\decorators.py

The result will be:

Conclusion

We have finally ended this series!
Now you have the basics to start working with Python.