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Exploring Akamai OPEN APIs from the command line using `HTTPie` and `jq`

This article covers the following topics:

Introduction
Installation
Configuration
Making your first call
[Making API calls from the command line](#making-api-calls-from-the command-line)
Parsing responses with jq

A personal diary of DataFrame munging over the years.

Convert Series datatype to numeric (will error if column has non-numeric values)
(h/t @makmanalp)

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

	import argparse

	# this first bit is to enable multiline help text. apparently this is a known problem with argparse.
	# Solution jacked from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3853722/python-argparse-how-to-insert-newline-in-the-help-text

	import textwrap as _textwrap
	class MultilineFormatter(argparse.HelpFormatter):
	def _fill_text(self, text, width, indent):
	text = self._whitespace_matcher.sub(' ', text).strip()
	paragraphs = text.split('\|n ')

	from IPython.display import HTML

	def _repr_html_(self, figsize=(17,10), **kwargs):
	"""Displays in the notebook a folium.folium.Map object.
	"""
	self._build_map(**kwargs)

	width, height = figsize

	iframe = '<iframe src="data:text/html;base64,{html}" width="{width}" height="{height}"></iframe>'\

	#!/bin/sh

	# installation of Oracle Java JDK.
	sudo apt-get -y update
	sudo apt-get -y install python-software-properties
	sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
	sudo apt-get -y update
	sudo apt-get -y install oracle-java7-installer

	# Installation of commonly used python scipy tools

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<meta name="author" content="Galenic">
	<script src="js/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
	<script src="js/knockout-2.1.0.js"></script>
	<script src="js/Chart.js"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="pure-min.css">