On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I am intending to start work on a Python program that will allow me to > better manage my Digital Ocean droplets
It sounds like you're using the DigitalOcean API described in https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/ > Would it be better to just parse the data that Digital Ocean returns as a > result of doing such things as a Get command, or would it be better to > create a Droplet class with functionality specific to Droplets? If I understand you rightly, then either approach is arguably ok. It really depends on what you'll intend to do in the short/medium/long term, and how much you already understand about the final shape of things. The first approach sounds like you'll take the JSON and pull just the minimal information that you care about. I think that, in your second proposal, you're talking about processing everything in the JSON response, even the stuff that you're not immediately caring about at this moment. I believe the question you're asking is essentially: bottom-up, or top-down? If it's just for your own one-off usage, and no one else has done much, I'd prefer the first, because it's going to be less work, and you can make certain simplifying assumptions to make your program short, since you know exactly what parts of the JSON you can ignore. Since you are starting off, you may not necessarily know the appropriate structure of all the classes yet. Rather than commit to a particular top-down design, you might want to just do the simplest thing first, get some exposure, and then build up from that experience. By the way, it does look like there are some Python libraries provided by the DigitalOcean folks: you might want to take a look at them: https://developers.digitalocean.com/libraries/ and perhaps you can reuse those libraries. Good luck to you! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
