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- requests
- cachetools (for part 3)
- An account with OpenExchangeRates (free)
- Generate an App ID on their website, you need this to use their API.
First two parts recapped here: https://blog.tecladocode.com/how-to-interact-with-apis-using-python/
Can use something like functools.lru_cache for caching function calls. That is, if you apply this decorator to a function and then you call the function with the same arguments 10 times, 9 of them will be really quick and the function won't evaluate.
Can use cachetools.TTLCache to cache a function call for up to a certain amount of time. When interacting with APIs it can be useful as sometimes we won't be interested in repeating the same call over and over.