d2lvalence 1.2.3

Desire2Learn Client Library for Python

The Python library divides functionality into a number of modules. The primary module helps with authentication. Several supporting modules can assist with making calls in several areas of the Valence API.

Authentication. The d2lvalence.auth module provides assistance for the authentication needed to invoke Valence APIs. You use the module’s functions (and perhaps also classes) to create a calling user context <d2lvalence.auth.D2LUserContext> object that you can then employ in conjunction with the Requests package as an authentication helper.

Installation

You can find the source for our Python client library SDK in two locations:

• Our own Python client GitHub repository.

• On the PyPi package index repository, so you can install it as a package with pip or easy_install.

Dependencies. In order to use the Python client library SDK, you’ll need to first ensure you have a working Python development environment:

• Python 3 (the reference environment uses Python 3.5), or Python 2.7 (via the use of the future library).

• The Requests Python package gets included in our auth <d2lvalence.auth> module so that you can use a calling user context object as an authentication helper for Requests.

• The python-future library gets used to provide Python 2.7 compatibility.

• The Bottle Python package if you want to use the samples available in conjunction with this client library (not a dependency for the client library itself).