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Yahoo! Launches Python Developer Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the snakes-on-a-page dept.

SimonW writes "Yahoo! has launched a Python Developer Center as part of their Developer Network. The new site explains how to access Yahoo!'s many web service APIs using Python, and includes tutorials on using Python with REST, JSON, XML and RSS. The site joins Yahoo!'s existing developer centers for PHP and JavaScript."

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  1. Howto by kevin_conaway · · Score: 3, Informative

    Furthermore, unlike their previous offerings, they have released little new code here. The only code they have released is an API to their search engine. The rest seem to be HOWTOs on how to python to access their services.

    Still good info though. Thanks

  2. Great, and good packages by masklinn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only did they release a nice guide, but the guide is actually good: while the first XML library they talk about in XML parsing is xml.dom.minidom, they also explain how to use the XML API with effbot's ElementTree (and link to both ElementTree and cElementTree), which is more than likely the best Python XML library. And the recommend UFP (Universal Feed Parser) for RSS parsing.

    The worst thing you can say about them is that they did their homework, kudos to the Yahoo guys.

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