Hellegouarch S. CherryPy essentials.Rapid Python Web application development

Packt Publishing, 2007. - 272 pages. ISBN: 1904811841, 9781904811848Over the last few years, the boom that the World has experienced with the Internet
breakthrough has pushed almost every programming language or platform to
welcome the rise of web development toolkits, libraries, and frameworks.
The Python programming language has grown a rather large list of theseenvironments though apart from a few of them such as Zope and Twisted most
have a fairly small community. It is in this context that CherryPy came into existence
when Rémi Delon, its creator, decided that he needed a tool that would work as
he wanted for his own personal projects. He then released CherryPy under a freesoftware license so that anyone could use, distribute, and ontribute to the project.CherryPy is a Python library implementing the HTTP protocol, which is at the very
core of the Web, using common Python idioms. On top of that CherryPy offers its
own view and concepts on how to help a developer to build web applications while
being minimally intrusive through its own simple and straightforward API.This book will guide you through the CherryPy library with the aim of giving you
the key to make the best of it in your own web applications.The frst four chapters are dedicated to CherryPy, providing information ranging
from its history to an in-depth presentation of its key features. The rest of the book
will then take you into the development of a photoblog application. Each chapter
tries to provide enough background to allow you to ponder the why and how of
each decision made. Indeed writing software applications is not a precise science and
compromises need to be undertaken for the better, however, the truth is that writing
software usually does not go quite as planned. I have written this book with the hope
that in the end you would have learnt much more than using a Python library.