Python Web Programming

by Holden, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780735710900
• ISBN10: 0735710902
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-08
• Publisher: Sams Publishing

Summary

Python Web Programmingis a practical introduction to building networked systems in the object-oriented framework of the Python language. It shows how to leverage the powerful Python libraries to build systems with less programming effort and easier maintenance. It leaves involved discussion of the Python language by itself to other books and dives right into using Python within web enables applications.This book is intended for programmers who have experience with other programming languages (such a C or C++) and has some experience with building web-based systems. It is for the serious programmer who does not want a basic introductory to the language.All code developed in the book will be available on the newriders.com website. This is an incredible asset because the Python language allows for modular programming between systems, thus readers in their projects can use code created in the book.

Author Biography

Steve Holden is a consultant, advising on system and network architectures and the design and implementation of programmed web systems for commercial clients. His client base includes GlobalPhone, an international telecommunications company, and the Prometric division of Thomson Learning. He was the technical lead on the major redesign of the National Science Foundation's web site in 1997.

Steve also teaches classes on TCP/IP, UNIX security, web security, intranet technologies, and database topics for Learning Tree International. Steve has spent time on both sides of the "academic divide" and was an early researcher into the integration of text, graphics, and databases while teaching commercial computing topics at Manchester University. This research led Steve to form Desktop Connection Limited, the first UK reseller of Frame Technology's (now Adobe's) FrameMaker software. His customers included British Telecom, British Aerospace, British Gas, and Sun Microsystems.

Steve was born and raised in the UK, and has traveled throughout Europe and the USA on teaching assignments. He now lives with his wife, Dorothy, in Fairfax, Virginia, where when not consulting, teaching, or writing, he enjoys looking for worthwhile American beers, entertaining friends and family, and reading science fiction.

Table of Contents

I Why Python, and How?	1	(110)
The Python Language	3	(18)
An Introduction to Python	21	(64)
Object-Orientation	85	(26)
II Network Programming in Python	111	(130)
Client/Server Concepts	113	(16)
Available Client Libraries	129	(66)
A Server Framework Library	195	(24)
Asynchronous Services	219	(22)
III Database Programming in Python	241	(108)
Relational Database Principles	243	(28)
Client/Server Database Architectures	271	(24)
The Python Database Interface	295	(20)
Adapting the Python Interface to Database Products	315	(34)
IV XML and Python	349	(78)
A Bird's-Eye View of XML	351	(18)
XML Processing	369	(40)
SAX: The Simple API for XML	409	(18)
V Integrated Web Applications in Python	427	(168)
Building Small, Efficient Python Web Systems	429	(20)
Web Application Frameworks	449	(50)
AWeFUL: An Object-Oriented Web Site Framework	499	(26)
A Web Application---Python Teach.com	525	(70)
VI Appendixes	595	(40)
A Changes Since Python 2.0	597	(22)
B Glossary	619	(16)
Index	635