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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 – implementing a basic CRM


Have a look at the following code (available as crm1.py). It will define the entities identified in the previous section and the result, when run, will have a familiar look:

We've added a little bit of CSS styling to order the elements on the page, but in the final revision, we will give it a much more attractive look. Clicking on the Add new button will allow you to add a new entity.

What just happened?

These humble beginnings in implementing CRM were accomplished by the code in crm1.py:

Chapter8/crm1.py

import os
import cherrypy

from entity import AbstractEntity, Attribute, Picklist, AbstractRelation

from browse import Browse
from display import Display
from editor import Editor

from logondb import LogonDB

db="/tmp/crm1.db"

class Entity(AbstractEntity):
  database = db

class Relation(AbstractRelation):
  database = db

class User(Entity):
  name = Attribute(notnull=True, unique=True,
            displayname="Name", primary=True)

class Account...