1. Restful REST is short for Representational State Transfer, meaning “representation state transfer”. Restful is a development philosophy and a software architecture style for the World Wide Web. 1.1 Features of Restful Abstract resources Images, text, songs, and videos are all resource entities; on the network they are abstracted as

Function Description abs(number) Returns the absolute value of a number apply(function[, args[, kwds]]) Calls the given function, optionally providing arguments all(iterable) Returns True if all elements of the iterable are true, otherwise False any(iterable) Returns True if any element of the iterable is true, otherwise False basestring() Abstract superclass of str and unicode, used for type checking bool(object) Returns True or False depending on the boolean value of object callable(object) Checks whether an object is callable chr(number) Returns the character whose ASCII code is the given number classmethod(func) Creates a class method from an instance method cmp(x, y) Compares x and y — returns a positive number if x>y; returns 0 if x==y complex(real[, imag]) Returns the complex number with the given real part (and optional imaginary part) delattr(object, name) Deletes the given attribute from the given object dict([mapping-or-sequence]) Constructs a dictionary, optionally from a mapping or a list of (key, value) pairs.