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Making Partial Updates with PATCH Requests in Python

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Nov 17, 2023

PATCH requests allow partial updates to resources via APIs. Python's requests module makes it easy to send PATCH requests and modify specific attributes using JSON patch docs.

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