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<title>No REST</title>
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<p>The first part of which is or will be fairly blatantly obvious upon viewing the first
example, but it's worth reiterating anyway. That being that this API is <b><i>not</i></b> a
REST API. Nor indeed could it ever be one.</p>
<p>Most, if not all, Python programmers (and not just Python programmers) know how easy it is
to work with a RESTful API. In fact they've become so popular that many other APIs attempt
to emulate REST-like behaviour as much as they are able. Right down to the use of JSON
formatted output to facilitate the use of their API without having to retrain
developers.</p>
<p>This API does not do that. It would not be able to do that and also provide access to the
entire C API on which it's built. It does, however, provide a very pythonic interface on top
of the direct bindings and it's this pythonic layer with which this HOWTO deals with.</p>
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