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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

A critical review


Now that we have created an object relational framework in the form of an entity and relation modules, it is time for a critical reappraisal.

A couple of larger and smaller issues may hinder us in quickly prototyping and implementing a database-driven application:

  • We already keep an administration of the additional properties of the entity attributes, for example, whether an attribute has a validator function. It might be a good idea to store things like the preferred representation of an attribute's value as well. We also want to have the possibility of keeping a record of allowed values, so we can implement picklists

  • Although the framework is flexible enough for a developer to quickly implement a database-driven application, it does not have any functionality to let an end user alter the database schema. It is not possible to add an attribute to an entity, for example. Even if this were possible, we would still need some authorization scheme to limit this functionality to...