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Popular Python Libraries Overview

1 - Popular Python Libraries Overview

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What is the primary function of the requests library?

💡 Hint: Think about what a HTTP request does.

Question 2 Easy

What does BeautifulSoup allow you to do?

💡 Hint: Consider web scraping and data extraction.

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Question 1

Which library is used to make HTTP requests easily?

Requests
BeautifulSoup
Pandas

💡 Hint: Think about the purpose of the library.

Question 2

True or False: BeautifulSoup can parse both XML and HTML documents.

True
False

💡 Hint: What types of documents can it handle?

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design a small application that uses both requests and BeautifulSoup to scrape news headlines from a website and save them to a CSV file.

💡 Hint: Consider how you would structure your code to combine these libraries effectively.

Challenge 2 Hard

What best practices would you implement when using external libraries to ensure your project remains stable?

💡 Hint: Think about managing dependencies and avoiding conflicts.

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