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Should I separate a web api from the webserver?
Lets say I'm building a site similar to this or Quora (or some arbitrary blog-like site). I need a real-time component that will be using web-sockets/long-polling to notify the user of new posts, ...
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Python API: Extension Module or Pure Module
We have a C++ application, with C++ interfaces changing regularly during development. We also have a C API which is designed to be stable in spite of such changes; the C API is tighly focused on ...
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HTTP API that wraps any Python-Scrapy spider
I have to write an HTTP API that wraps any Scrapy spider, it should accept Requests, execute them in Scrapy, and return data extracted by the spider and lets the user reuse the same code to extract ...
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Is there a way to efficiently allow a user to upload multiple content at once for e-commerce type sites?
Sellers on large sites like Amazon and Newegg need to provide names, descriptions, and images for their products to be displayed on the e-commerce sites.
These sellers could have 10000+ products to ...
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What are the advantages of dynamically binding a method to class instance?
I came across Instagram's API client written in Python.
In their class InstagramAPI, they bind the methods to a function in bind.py. When called, the function returns an instance of the class ...
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Which is better API: table.add_row() or table.rows.add()?
I'm writing a library to create and manipulate Word .docx files in Python. In general, I take a lot of influence from the Microsoft VBA/C# API for Word in designing the API, figuring they've given it ...
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Naming a predicate: “precondition” or “precondition_is_met”?
In my web app framework, each page can have a precondition that needs to be satisfied before it can be displayed to the user. For example, if user 1 and user 2 are playing a back-and-forth ...
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Merge two different API calls into One
I have two different apps in my django project. One is "comment" and an other one is "files". A comment might save some file attached to it.
The current way of creating a comment with attachments is ...
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How my website should use its own API?
Im building small web-service which will provide my users with data through API.
Also, some data will be available right on my website.
The question is about how to use my own API? Should my website ...
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How do I assess tradeoff between robustness and “lazy” code in API design?
Postel's law:
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
"Lazy" code (per The Pragmatic Programmer):
Be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and ...
