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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

Summary


We learned a lot in this chapter about using a database to store persistent data.

Specifically, we covered:

  • The benefits of using a database engine

  • How to use SQLite, a database engine distributed with Python

  • How to implement a password database

  • How to design and develop a database-driven tasklist application

  • How to implement unit tests with Python's unittest module

  • How to make a web application more responsive using AJAX calls

We also discussed how to make a web application respond to mouse clicks and request new data from the server without using <form> elements but using jQuery's click() and live() methods.

Now that we've made the first step in using a database, we're ready to create more elaborate databases designs, consisting of more than a single table, and look at the methods to define relations between these tables – which is the topic of the next chapter.5