What is the primary purpose of using a session object in the requests library?

To automatically retry failed requests

To encrypt all data sent over the network

To maintain cookies and other parameters across multiple requests

A Python script needs to download a large file from a server that requires authentication. The server uses a session cookie for authentication and the file is 2 GB. The script currently uses requests.get() with stream=True and iterates over the response content. The download fails after about 1 GB with a connection reset. Which change is most likely to fix the issue?

Increase the timeout parameter to 300 seconds.

Disable streaming and load the entire file into memory.

Use a different User-Agent header to avoid being blocked.

Add retry logic with exponential backoff and resume the download using the Range header.

A Python script receives JSON data from an untrusted source and uses it to create an object via pickle.loads(). The script must avoid insecure deserialization vulnerabilities. Which approach is most secure?

Use json.loads() instead of pickle.loads() to parse the data and then validate the resulting dictionary.

Use pickle.loads() but restrict the allowed classes with a custom unpickler.

Use yaml.load() with a custom loader that only allows basic types.

Use pickle.loads() but only after validating the data against a schema.

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31foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of using a session object in the requests library?
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A Python script needs to download a large file from a server that requires authentication. The server uses a session cookie for authentication and the file is 2 GB. The script currently uses requests.get() with stream=True and iterates over the response content. The download fails after about 1 GB with a connection reset. Which change is most likely to fix the issue?
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Which Python method is used to parse a JSON string into a Python dictionary?
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34expert · hard
A Python script receives JSON data from an untrusted source and uses it to create an object via pickle.loads(). The script must avoid insecure deserialization vulnerabilities. Which approach is most secure?
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35foundation · easy
When interacting with a RESTful API that returns paginated results, which HTTP header is commonly used to indicate the total number of pages or items?
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What is the primary purpose of using a session object in the requests library?

Which Python method is used to parse a JSON string into a Python dictionary?

A Python script receives JSON data from an untrusted source and uses it to create an object via pickle.loads(). The script must avoid insecure deserialization vulnerabilities. Which approach is most secure?

When interacting with a RESTful API that returns paginated results, which HTTP header is commonly used to indicate the total number of pages or items?

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