I recently spent some time researching gRPC and this post is a summary of what I learned. I also wrote a prototype application to test gRPC and gRPC-Web with Python and JS. The JS client takes a string from user input and test if it’s a palindrome. The code can be found on GitHub and in a future post I will comment on it.

Yes! Indentation, or leading white space at the beginning of a line is required in Python. You can read more about why that is important here. And here is the part of the style guide convention for indentation (PEP 8).

Python has three similar data structures that can hold an unordered collection of elements: list, tuple and set.

OR: Run a Python script with arguments

You can add arguments to the command line when running python scripts by importing the sys module from Python’s standard library and using its argv function.

Given a nested dictionary like this:

dog_breeds = {
    'Labrador Retriever': {'life_span': 14, 'male_weight': '36 Kg', 'female_weight': '32 Kg'},
    'Beagle': {'life_span': 15, 'male_weight': '11 Kg', 'female_weight': '10 Kg'},
    'German Shepherd': {'life_span': 13, 'male_weight': '40 Kg', 'female_weight': '32 Kg'},
    'Jack Russell Terrier': {'life_span': 16, 'male_weight': '8 Kg', 'female_weight': '8 Kg'},
    'Rottweiler': {'life_span': 10, 'male_weight': '60 Kg', 'female_weight': '48 Kg'}
}

here’s a way to display its content sorted by key: