A simple python script to start learning python

learn_python.py

import json
import requests

"""
The following script will help you learn python by poking at a simple url
that returns a known value. You can identify what you want to extract,
format as necessary and print it to illustrate your mastery.
"""


# A variable to use defined that the top of the script
URL = 'http://ifconfig.co/json'

"""
This is a simple http request which returns a response object.
The response object has a function called json which returns a python native
data type, typically a dictionary or a list of dictionaries, decoded from the json response.
"""
response = requests.get(URL).json()


print(f"The following is the JSON reponse")
print(json.dumps(response,indent=2))
print("")
print(f"IP Address : {response['ip']}")
# the variable[str] syntax is how you access values fron a dictionary by identifying the key as a string
# accessing a key that doesn't exist will throw an exception. what exception will it throw?
print(f"Hostname   : {response['hostname']}")
try:
  print(f"Hotname    : {response['hotname']}")
except Exception as e:
  print(f"Exception caught")
  print(f"Type       : {type(e)}")
response['hotname'] = 'Lisa'
print(f"Hotname    : {response['hotname']}")
print("This could be our chance Wyatt")