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Web.py Introduction

Web.py is a free and open source web application framework that is as simple as it is powerful. Web.py was originally published while Aaron swartz worked at reddit.com, where the site used it ass it grew to become one of the top 1000 sites according to Alexa and served millions of daily page views. "It's the anti-framework framework. web.py doesn't get in your way." explained founder Steve Huffman.

The web.py slogan is: "Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen."

Some of the sites which uses web.py are

Python

Installation

To install web.py,

  • Firstly, download the following tar file:
wget http://webpy.org/static/web.py-0.37.tar.gz
  • Extract the downloaded tar file
tar -zxvf web.py-0.37.tar.gz
  • tar -zxvf web.py-0.37.tar.gz
cd web.py-0.37/
  • Install and make it accessible to all the applications
sudo python setup.py install

Features of web.py

Expertiza now has a Java dependency, so the machine you are using to develop Expertiza on should have the JVM installed.

Hello world example

Conclusion

References