Creating Web Applications with WebStack

This introductory guide describes the process of making a Web application using the WebStack framework.

Setting Up

First of all, let us assume that the WebStack distribution has been unpacked and now sits in the WebStack-1.2.2 directory.

Before we begin, we must make sure that the WebStack package is available to Python. The easiest way to do this is to change into the WebStack-1.2.2 directory and to run the setup.py script provided with the version of Python you are going to be using (possibly as a privileged user like root):

cd WebStack-1.2.2
python setup.py install

If you don't want to install WebStack in this way, or if you can't do so because you don't have root privileges, you can just make sure that the WebStack-1.2.2 directory sits on your PYTHONPATH.

Supported Frameworks

With the help of Python's built-in standard library, WebStack can run without any additional software, but you may wish to investigate the other supported frameworks in order to run WebStack applications in other environments.

Viewing the API Documentation

The API documentation for use in conjunction with this guide can be found inside the apidocs directory within the WebStack-1.2.2 directory. Of course, it is always possible to view WebStack's API documentation within Python by importing modules (such as WebStack.Generic) and using Python's built-in help function.

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