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12. Python Web Development

Kevin Wilson1  
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London, UK
 

Python is widely used for developing large-scale web applications that are not possible to build using .NET and PHP.

Python supports features that are executed with different frameworks such as Django, Flask, Pyramid, and CherryPy commonly used in sites such Spotify and Mozilla.

You’ll also need the source files in the directory Chapter11.

Web Servers

Most Python web applications are executed on a web server through an interface called WSGI (web server gateway interface ). Other Python scripts are executed ...

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