Core Python Programming, Second Edition

Chapter 20. Web Programming

Chapter Topics

• Introduction

• Web Surfing with Python: Simple Web Clients

• urlparse and urllib Modules

• Advanced Web Clients

• Crawler/Spider/Robot

• CGI: Helping Web Servers Process Client Data

• Building CGI Applications

• Using Unicode with CGI

• Advanced CGI

• Creating Web Servers

• Related Modules

20.1 Introduction

This introductory chapter on Web programming will give you a quick and high-level overview of the kinds of things you can do with Python on the Internet, from Web surfing to creating user feedback forms, from recognizing Uniform Resource Locators to generating dynamic Web page output.

20.1.1 Web Surfing: Client/Server Computing (Again?!?)

Web surfing falls under the ...