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CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development

By : Sylvain Hellegouarch
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CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development

By: Sylvain Hellegouarch

Overview of this book

<p>CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. CherryPy abstracts the complex low-level HTTP protocol into an easy-to-use interface that respects Python idioms. The library aims at being simple to learn for a beginner while offering the most advanced features to fluent Python developers. For these reasons CherryPy was chosen to be at the heart of the popular and feature-rich TurboGears web framework. CherryPy-powered web applications are stand-alone Python applications with their own embedded multi-threaded web server, but can also run behind Apache or IIS for scalability.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CherryPy Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have reviewed key points of the CherryPy library, which will hopefully open your mind on how to make the most of its capabilities. While being a small package CherryPy offers an extended and yet coherent set of features all geared towards making your life easier. Some aspects of CherryPy have been left out, however, as they go beyond the scope of this book and the best place to gather more detailed information is by visiting the user and developer public mailing lists.

Now that you have acquired a good background with the library, we will move on to using it by developing a simple photoblog application.