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CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development

By : Sylvain Hellegouarch
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CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development

By: Sylvain Hellegouarch

Overview of this book

<p>CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. CherryPy abstracts the complex low-level HTTP protocol into an easy-to-use interface that respects Python idioms. The library aims at being simple to learn for a beginner while offering the most advanced features to fluent Python developers. For these reasons CherryPy was chosen to be at the heart of the popular and feature-rich TurboGears web framework. CherryPy-powered web applications are stand-alone Python applications with their own embedded multi-threaded web server, but can also run behind Apache or IIS for scalability.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CherryPy Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter should have introduced you to some of the core principles of CherryPy, HTTP, and the server engine as well as its configuration system. We have also briefly discussed the object publisher engine, which allows transparent mapping of a URI to an exposed Python object. Finally we briefly reviewed the core modules of the CherryPy library that enhance its capacities and the way CherryPy lets you handle errors. The next chapter will dive into CherryPy's internal components and features as well go into more detail about some topics already covered.