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Apress.The.Definitive.Guide.To.Pylons PART 1 Getting Started The Definitive Guide to Pylons James Gardner The Definitive Guide to Pylons Copyright © 2009 by James Gardner Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. ISBN-10 (pbk): 1-59059-934-9 ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-59059-934-1 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-0534-0 Printed and bound in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. 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Contents at a Glance About the Author. xix About the Technical Reviewer . xxi Acknowledgments . xxiii Source Code and Updates . xxv PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Getting Started ■CHAPTER 1 Introducing Pylons . 3 ■CHAPTER 2 Installing Pylons . 13 ■CHAPTER 3 Exploring Pylons . 29 ■CHAPTER 4 Tracking Down and Handling Problems. 55 ■CHAPTER 5 Using View Templates. 63 ■CHAPTER 6 Working with Forms and Validators . 91 ■CHAPTER 7 Introducing the Model and SQLAlchemy . 127 ■CHAPTER 8 Starting the SimpleSite Tutorial . 165 PART 2 ■ ■ ■ Advanced Pylons ■CHAPTER 9 URLs, Routing, and Dispatch. 195 ■CHAPTER 10 Unicode . 217 ■CHAPTER 11 Internationalization and Localization . 227 ■CHAPTER 12 Testing. 245 ■CHAPTER 13 Documentation . 263 ■CHAPTER 14 SimpleSite Tutorial Part 2 . 279 ■CHAPTER 15 CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax. 325 iv PART 3 ■ ■ ■ Expert Pylons ■CHAPTER 16 The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) . 369 ■CHAPTER 17 Pylons’ Internal Architecture. 389 ■CHAPTER 18 Authentication and Authorization. 415 ■CHAPTER 19 SimpleSite Tutorial Part 3 . 433 ■CHAPTER 20 Logging . 471 ■CHAPTER 21 Deployment . 487 ■APPENDIX Licenses . 503 ■INDEX . 513 v Contents About the Author. xix About the Technical Reviewer . xxi Acknowledgments . xxiii Source Code and Updates . xxv PART 1 ■ ■ ■ Getting Started ■CHAPTER 1 Introducing Pylons . 3 The Old Way: CGI Scripts . 3 The Pylons Way . 5 Model View Controller Architecture . 5 Convention Over Configuration. 6 Loose Coupling and Clean Separation. 7 Other Features . 7 The Python Language . 8 Python 3.0 . 8 The Pylons Community . 9 Pylons Components . 9 What’s Coming Up . 10 Summary . 11 ■CHAPTER 2 Installing Pylons. 13 Quick Start to Installation for the Impatient. 13 Installation in Detail . 14 Using the Python Package Index . 14 Setting Up a Virtual Python Environment. 14 Working with Easy Install . 16 Installing Pylons . 17 Understanding Eggs. 18 vii viii ■CONTENTS Advanced Topics . 18 Activating and Deactivating a Virtual Python Environment . 18 Setting Virtualenv Options. 19 Choosing Package Versions with Easy Install. 19 Installing with a Proxy Server . 20 Troubleshooting Easy Install. 21 Working on the Bleeding Edge . 22 Platform-Specific Notes . 22 Linux and BSD . 23 Mac OS X . ..
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