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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Serving HTTP

Interacting through HTTP is one of the most frequent means of communication between distributed applications or even totally separated software and it's also the foundation of all existing web applications and web-based tools.

While Python has tens of great web frameworks that can satisfy most different needs, the standard library itself has all the foundations that you might need to implement a basic web application.

How to do it...

Python has a convenient protocol named WSGI to implement HTTP-based applications. While for more advanced needs, a web framework might be required; for very simple needs, the wsgiref implementation built into Python itself can meet our needs:

import re
import inspect
from wsgiref...
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