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Python and the Web

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This chapter tackles some aspects of web programming with Python. This is a really vast area, but I’ve selected three main topics for your amusement: screen scraping, CGI, and mod_python.

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    An alternative is to turn off the display and log the errors to files instead. See the Python Library Reference for more information.

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    While the name once stood for Simple Object Access Protocol, this is no longer true. Now it’s just SOAP.

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© 2017 Magnus Lie Hetland

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Hetland, M.L. (2017). Python and the Web. In: Beginning Python. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0028-5_15

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