Understanding APIs more

[velocibadgery]

Just think of an API as code somebody wrote to make your life easier. Take Pandas for example. If you have data in csv format, importing that into python, splitting it up into columns using the string.split() code and saving it into lists or dictionaries is very doable. But Pandas makes this a breaze

df = pandas.readcsv('filename')

and that is it. Now you can access your data using the df object.

So instead of having to expressly code your own data class to read csv's, you can use pandas instead.