building a web interface

[Shel]

Will take a look after stuffing myself with turkey today (am in the
US, where we give thanks by eating everything in sight).  Thanks,
Alice.

Wait, did I just say "thanks"?  Must go eat pie.

On Nov 25, 12:36 am, Alice Bevan–McGregor <al... at gothcandy.com> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> I'm mildly biased, being the author of the framework, but I can highly
> recommend WebCore for rapid prototyping of web applications; it has
> templating via numerous template engines, excellent JSON (AJAJ)
> support, and support for database back-ends via SQLAlchemy.  It also
> has session support baked-in via a project called Beaker.  
> Documentation is fairly complete, and I can be found camping in the
> #webcore IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at strange hours.
>
> If you can write a class, you can have a fully operational web
> application in a single file of ~8 lines or so.  (Or you can create a
> complete easy-installable Python package with multiple modules.)
>
> For information, see:http://www.web-core.org/
>
> As an interactive-fiction example:
>
> class RootController(web.core.Controller):
>     def index(self):
>         """This returns a template that uses JavaScript to call execute().
>         The JavaScript adds the result of execute() to the display."""
>         session = db.Session().save()
>         return './templates/main.html', dict(session=session.id)
>
>     def execute(self, session, statement):
>         """Load our session and pass the input off to our interactive
>         fiction library of choice.  Return the result if all went well."""
>         session = db.Session.get(session)
>
>         try:
>             result = myiflib.execute(session, statement)
>
>         except myiflib.ParseError:
>             return 'json:', dict(status="failure", message="Error...")
>
>         return 'json:', dict(status="success", message=result)
>
>  — Alice.