Chapter 3. Exploring Pylons

Now that you have seen how to set up a Python environment and have used Easy Install to install Pylons and its dependencies, it is time to create your first Pylons project. In time-honored tradition, I'll start with an example that outputs the words Hello world! to the web browser.

In this chapter, you'll also learn the basics of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, learn about Pylons' request and response objects, and begin learning how Pylons works and about the other objects Pylons sets up for you.

Exploring Pylons' Dependencies

As you learned in Chapter 1, Pylons is more like a collection of very carefully chosen separate components than a tightly integrated framework, but it can often be difficult to work out exactly ...

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