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Revision as of 21:58, 13 September 2014

CherryPy Framework

CherryPy is a python based, object-oriented web framework that enables developers to quickly create lightweight and fast web applications.<ref>http://www.cherrypy.org/</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryPy</ref>

Some of the popular websites using it are Hulu<ref>http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2013/03/13/python-and-hulu/</ref> and Netflix<ref>http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/03/python-at-netflix.html</ref>. The full list of applications using it can be found here.<ref>http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/intro.html#websites-running-atop-cherrypy</ref>

Background

Basic Example

The following code demonstrates the most basic webserver using the CherryPy framework.

import cherrypy

class WebApp(object):
    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
        return "Hello, CherryPy!"
   
cherrypy.quickstart(WebApp())

Run the application, and open your web browser to localhost:8080. The following page is displayed

Features

Logging

Query Strings

Cookies

Sessions

Serve Static Content

Ajax Support

Publish REST APIs

Multiple HTTP Servers

Test Suite

References

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