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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 – using a table-based Entity browser


Run browse.py and point your browser to http://localhost:8080. A small sample application is started that shows lists of random data, as can be seen in the following image:

This rather Spartan looking interface may lack most visual adornments, but it is fully functional nevertheless. You may page through the list of data by clicking the appropriate buttons in the button bar at the bottom, change the sort order of the list by clicking one or more times on a header (which will cycle through ascending, descending, or no sort at all, however, without any visual feedback at the moment) or reduce the list of items shown by clicking on a value in a column, that will result in a list of items that share the same value in this column. All items may be shown again by clicking the Clear button.

What just happened?

The browse module (which is available as browse.py) contains more than the sample application. It also defines a reusable Browse class...