Being nice to the server: Wrapping a REST API for a cosmological distance/velocity calculator with Python

JUAN CABRAL; EHSAN KOURKCHI; MARTIN BEROIZ; ERIK PETERSON; BRUNO SÁNCHEZ

Conferencia; ADASS XXXI; 2021

In this paper we present PyCF3, a python client for the cosmologicaldistance-velocity calculator CosmicFlow-3. The project has a cache and retrysystem designed with the objective of reducing the stress on the server andmitigating the waiting times of the users in the calculations. We also addressQuality Assurance code standards and availability of the code.