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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 – creating a books application, take two


Run the code in books2.py and point your web browser to http://localhost:8080.

After logging in (a default username/password combination of admin/admin will be present), you will be presented with a list of entities to browse (books and authors) and after clicking on Books, a screen will present itself that closely resembles the general Browse application (the page still has a Spartan look because no CSS is added at this point):

Thanks to some JavaScript goodness, our browse screen is embedded in the page instead of functioning standalone, yet all functionality is retained, including skipping forward and backward as well as sorting. New books or authors may be added by clicking the Add new button.

What just happened?

When we take a look at the code in books2.py, we see that its main part consists of definitions of entities, relations, and specific Browse entities that are combined together to form a CherryPy application:

Chapter7/books2...