Keynote for Day 2 of PyCon Taiwan 2012, by James Tauber

1. PYTHON AND THE WEB
J ame s Taub e r
@jtauber

4. Python Web

5. Python Web

6. Python Web

7. Python Web

8. Python Web

9. “python” in talk and “web” in talk

10. HISTORY
1989
TBL writes proposal for what would become WWW
GvR starts work on Python
1994
First WWW conference
Python 1.0 released
W3C founded
1997
Python 1.5 released
HTML 3.2 released

11. Python Web

12. Batter ies Included

13. NumPy
SciPy
Matplotlib
pandas

14. N LTK

15. music21
se ba st ia n / c ze r ny

16. Sphinx
read t h ed o c s .o r g

17. PyPI
c r a t e . io

18. You can’t use a specialist language
to build a system

19. •computer scientists
•domain experts
•system administrators
•web developers

20. “Programs are meant to be read by
humans and only incidentally for computers
to execute”
—Don Knuth

21. Python Web

22. H T M L , H T T P, U R L s

23. S e r v i n g s t a t i c fi l e s w i t h
hy p e r l i n k s

24. Im a g es
CSS
S e r ve r S i d e I n c l u d e s

25. CGI
Common Gateway Interface

26. I nver ti ng C od e a n d M a r kup
PHP and ASP

27. D a t a b a s e - b a c ke d We b s i t e s

28. LAMP

29. Jav a sc r ip t

30. XM L

31. Web Ser vices

32. A JAX

33. JSON

34. what is a web p a ge ?
wha t is a web s i te ?

35. Candelabr a Demo

36. jtauber. g it h u b. c om de mo

37. Python Web

38. L A MP
Python

39. ZOPE
Plone

40. WSGI

41. MVC

42. database mapping
HTML templating
req u est rou t i n g

43. Tu r b o G e a rs 1
SQLObject
Kid
Cher r yPy

44. Tu r b o G e a rs 2
S Q L A l c h e my
Genshi
Pylons

45. R e p o ze B F G
Pylons
P y ra m i d

46. Flask
Wer kzeur g
Jin ja 2

47. Dja ngo

50. 1.0 S ep t em b er 2 0 0 8
1. 1 Ju ly 2 0 09
1. 2 M ay 2 01 0
1.3 M a rc h 2 0 1 1
1.4 M a rc h 2 0 1 2

51. timezones
S E L E C T F O R U P DAT E
password hashing
signed cookies
project/app templates
wsgi.py
in-browser testi ng

52. a layer above?

53. why layer?

54. por tability of higher layer s

55. r e us ab i l i t y o f l owe r l aye r s

56. “We read Knuth so you don’t have to”
—Tim Peters

57. idea realization
What you do for a living is not be creative, what
you do is ship
— Seth Godin

58. Pi n ax provides wh at m any s i te s
h ave in common so you c an fo c u s
o n wha t m akes you r si t e d i ffer ent

59. Project layout
Default templates
Ac c o u n t M a n a g e m ent
R e u s a bl e a p p s
Star ter Projects

60. Announcements OAuth
Attachments OpenID
Avatars Pagination
Badges Photos
Blogs Profiles
Bookmarks Sign up codes
Contact import Tagging
Email confirmation Tasks
Friends Threaded-comments
Invitations Timezones
Markup User-to-user messages
Microblogging Voting
Notification Wikis

61. caching (Redi s )
s e a r ch (Solr / H ay s tac k)
m e ssage queues ( Ce l e r y )

62. Providing Web APIs

63. Consuming Web APIs

64. PYTHON AND THE WEB
J ame s Taub e r
@jtauber