What do I need to know in order to write a web application in python?

[John Gordon]

In <1b0d04db-c45d-481d-b19e-03ba2d2a5495 at p16g2000vbo.googlegroups.com> ErichCart ErichCart <erichcart at gmail.com> writes:

> By real-time, I mean that I want it to be similar to the way instant
> online chess works. Something like here: instantchess.com, but for
> RISK.

That site appears to require a monthly fee, so it may not be a good
vehicle for demonstrating requirements to a broad audience.

> I thought about making such an application, and now that I want to
> practice python I thought that perhaps it can be done with python.
> Now after your answers it seems like a hard task not suitable for a
> beginner.

I would agree.  Learning Python is enough of a task by itself; adding
website design *and* real-time interaction on top of that is probably
too much.

> What do I need to know in order to be able to do the same with python?
> Which python modules/python development environments do I need to use?

You might try learning Tkinter; it is python's standard GUI interface
package.

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