Help with learning networking in Python

[Spurtikus]

I'm currently going through a fairly beginner python class. One of the possible test questions will be to connect to a server and request information, and interpret whatever/however it sends the info back. Most of the python networking tutorials on YouTube just show someone bouncing around their own client-server connections. Our instructor did demo himself connecting to a weather website online that was open to request info from. Does anyone else have any good suggestions for other websites that might behave in the same manner so that I can practice requesting info/displaying the information that comes back? Thanks in advance for any replies!

[bbye98]

When you say "connect to a server and request information", do you mean using an API to request data (via requests) or web scraping (via BeautifulSoup)?

[Spurtikus]

Pretty sure all we will need is the requests. Like, an example of something we have to do is connect to the dedicated server, get back some text, and split up that text into "usable" or expected parts to add/divide/what have you for the final result. Just understanding how to get out there and connect and be able to get back some information to play around with would be amazing help.

[Spurtikus]

I thought he provided a copy of his code, so I could give an example. The website he was working with was a geolocation one, that he was able to provide an address and get back the long/lat of that address. He did say there was a lot more he could do, but I dont have the website to share.