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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

Time for action – searching for words


To be able to find a list of all topics which contain one or more specific words, we present the user with a search form in the navigation area. These are some of the considerations when designing such a form:

  • The user must be able to enter more than one word to find topics with all those words in their content

  • Searching should be case insensitive

  • Locating those topics should be fast even if we have a large number of topics with lots of text

  • Auto completion would be helpful to aid the user in specifying words that are actually part of the content of some topic

All these considerations will determine how we will implement the functionality in the delivery layer and on the presentation side.

What just happened?

The search options in the navigation area and the tag entry field in the edit screen all feature autocomplete functionality. We encountered autocomplete functionality before in the previous chapter where it was employed to show a list of titles and authors...