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Challenge: Your First Async Function
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You are working with the public API jsonplaceholder.typicode.com, which provides fake data for testing and learning. Your task is to fetch user information and display it in a readable format.
The endpoint https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{user_id} returns a JSON object with the following fields:
name: the user's full name;email: the user's email address;company: an object with anamefield containing the company name.
Task
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- Define an async function
fetch_user(client, user_id)that:- Sends a GET request to the users endpoint using the provided
clientanduser_id; - Extracts
name,email, and companynamefrom the response; - Prints them in the format:
Name | Email | Company.
- Sends a GET request to the users endpoint using the provided
- Define an async function
main()that:- Creates an
httpx.AsyncClient; - Uses
asyncio.gather()to fetch users with IDs1,2, and3concurrently.
- Creates an
- Run
main()usingasyncio.run().
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