Let's take a look at the following steps:
- We will start by creating a support function to perform a web request:
import requestsensembl_server = 'http://rest.ensembl.org'def do_request(server, service, *args, **kwargs): url_params = '' for a in args: if a is not None: url_params += '/' + a req = requests.get('%s/%s%s' % (server, service, url_params), params=kwargs, headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}) if not req.ok: req.raise_for_status() return req.json()
We start by importing the requests library and specifying the root URL. Then, we create a simple function that will take the functionality to be called (see the following examples) and generate a complete URL. It will also add optional parameters and specify the ...
