Warning
You should work on this exercise with your own installation of Python, on you computer. Learn how for Mac OSX or Windows.
This is a short introduction to requests
, a Python module
that make grabbing content from the web quite easy.
Requests is NOT in the python distribution, but is installed along Anaconda.
If it's not installed, try: python3 -m pip install --user requests
.
Now, your exercice will just have to GET
the content of the page
https://api.github.com/users/python
, and print it.
In case your computer is not connected to the internet, your program
should simply print No internet connectivity.
on the standard output.
$ python solution.py
{
"login": "python",
"id": 1525981,
...
Oh Damn ! The wifi is down !
$ python solution.py
No internet connectivity.