Programming Python, 3rd Edition

18.1. "Surfing on the Shoulders of Giants" This chapter concludes our look at Python Internet programming by exploring a handful of Internet-related topics and packages. We've covered many Internet topics in the previous five chapterssocket basics...

18.2. Zope: A Web Application Framework Zope is an open source web application server and toolkit, written in and customizable with Python. It is a server-side technology that allows web designers to implement sites and applica...

18.3. HTMLgen: Web Pages from Objects One of the things that makes basic CGI scripts complex is their inherent dependence on HTML: they must embed and generate legal HTML code to build user interfaces. These tasks migh...

18.4. Jython: Python for Java Jython (formerly known as JPython) is an entirely distinct implementation of the Python programming language that allows programmers to use Python as an easy-to-use scripting component in Java-based appli...

18.5. Grail: A Python-Based Web Browser I briefly mentioned the Grail browser near the start of Chapter 13. Many of Python's Internet tools date back to and reuse the work that went into Grail, a full-blown Internet web browser that:...

18.6. XML Processing Tools Python ships with XML parsing support in its standard library and plays host to a vigorous XML special-interest group. XML (eXtended Markup Language) is a tag-based markup language for describing many kinds of struc...

18.7. Windows Web Scripting Extensions Although this book doesn't cover the Windows-specific extensions available for Python in detail, a quick look at Internet scripting tools available to Windows programmers is in order here. On Windows, Py...

18.8. Python Server Pages (PSP) is a server-side templating technology that embeds Python code inside HTML. PSP is a Python-based answer to other server-side embedded scripting approaches. The PSP scripting en...

18.9. Rolling Your Own Servers in Python Most of the Internet modules we looked at in the last few chapters deal with client-side interfaces such as FTP and Post Office Protocol (POP), or special server-side protocols ...

18.10. And Other Cool Stuff The Web and the Internet it runs on are large, dynamic domains, and we haven't done justice to all the available tools they offer to Python programmers. To wrap up, the following is a list of some of the more...