Newbie: Python 3 and web applications?

[Rui Maciel]

I'm currently learning Python, and I've been focusing on Python3. To try to
kill two birds with one stone, I would also like to learn the basics of
writing small web applications.

These web applications don't need to do much more than provide an interface
to a small database, and they may not even be required to be accessible
outside of a LAN.

Does anyone have any tips on what's the best way to start off this
adventure?


Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel

 

[John Gordon]

I'm currently learning Python, and I've been focusing on Python3. To try to
kill two birds with one stone, I would also like to learn the basics of
writing small web applications.

These web applications don't need to do much more than provide an interface
to a small database, and they may not even be required to be accessible
outside of a LAN.

Does anyone have any tips on what's the best way to start off this
adventure?

I recommend using a web framework such as Django or Pylons. It's more to
learn, but frameworks handle a ton of low-level details for you and make
web development overall much easier.

 

[Wayne Werner]

I'm currently learning Python, and I've been focusing on Python3. To try to
kill two birds with one stone, I would also like to learn the basics of
writing small web applications.

These web applications don't need to do much more than provide an interface
to a small database, and they may not even be required to be accessible
outside of a LAN.

Does anyone have any tips on what's the best way to start off this
adventure?

Take a look at the Python3 branch of Flask:
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask.git

And the werkzeug webserver:
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug.git


If you download these you can install them with:

python setup.py install

(werkzeug first, then flask)


Here's the most basic webserver you can create that way:


from flask import Flask

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def main():
return "Hello, Web!"

if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()



And yet flask is highly extensible with a lot of plugins.


HTH,
W