Concurrent and Parallel Programming in Python - Creating a Wikipedia Reader

Concurrent and Parallel Programming in Python - Creating a Wikipedia Reader

Assessment

Interactive Video

Information Technology (IT), Architecture

University

Hard

Created by

Quizizz Content

FREE Resource

The video tutorial covers a project that uses threading to efficiently scrape and store S&P 500 company data. It introduces the creation of a 'wiki worker' class using the requests library and Beautiful Soup for web scraping. The tutorial explains how to extract company symbols from a Wikipedia page and discusses setting up a virtual environment for testing. The focus is on threading to handle network requests without blocking, making the process faster and more efficient.

Read more

1 questions

Show all answers

1.

OPEN ENDED QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What new insight or understanding did you gain from this video?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF