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Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide

By : Michel Anders
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Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide

By: Michel Anders

Overview of this book

<p>Building your own Python web applications provides you with the opportunity to have great functionality, with no restrictions. However, creating web applications with Python is not straightforward. Coupled with learning a new skill of developing web applications, you would normally have to learn how to work with a framework as well.</p> <p><em>Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide</em> shows you how to independently build your own web application that is easy to use, performs smoothly, and is themed to your taste – all without having to learn another web framework.</p> <p>Web development can take time and is often fiddly to get right. This book will show you how to design and implement a complex program from start to finish. Each chapter looks at a different type of web application, meaning that you will learn about a wide variety of features and how to add them to your custom web application. You will also learn to implement jQuery into your web application to give it extra functionality. By using the right combination of a wide range of tools, you can have a fully functional, complex web application up and running in no time.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Have a go hero – refreshing the itemlist on a regular basis


If you were to access your tasklist from home and keep the application open and later access it from, for example, your work, any changes made to the list from work wouldn't be visible at home unless you refreshed the page manually. This is because there is nothing implemented to refresh the list of tasks regularly; it is refreshed only after some action is initiated by clicking a button.

How could you implement a regular refresh? Hint: in the first AJAX example, we encountered JavaScript's setInterval() method. Can you devise a way to let it replace the contents of the <div> element containing the list of tasks using the load() method?

An example implementation is available in tasklistajax2.js. You can either rename it to tasklistajax.js and run tasklist.py or run tasklist2.py.