Python Web - Werkzeug (WSGI)

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Werkzeug is a HTTP and WSGI library

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request and response objects are provided to work with them.

• The request data takes the environ object and allows you to access the data from that environ in a nice manner.
• The response object is a WSGI application in itself and provides a much nicer way to create responses.

Example

• 1 - the Hello World with response object

from werkzeug.wrappers import Response

def application(environ, start_response):
    response = Response('Hello World!', mimetype='text/plain')
    return response(environ, start_response)

• 2 - the Hello World with response object and request object that parses the URL to get the query string 'name'

from werkzeug.wrappers import Request, Response

def application(environ, start_response):
    request = Request(environ)
    text = 'Hello %s!' % request.args.get('name', 'World') 
    response = Response(text, mimetype='text/plain')
    return response(environ, start_response)

• 3 - from the start page

from werkzeug.wrappers import Request, Response

@Request.application
def application(request):
    return Response('Hello World!')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from werkzeug.serving import run_simple
    run_simple('localhost', 4000, application)

Features

• debugger
• Interactive JavaScript based in-browser debugger
• Basic session and signed cookie support
• request and response objects,
• HTTP header parsing and dumping
• HTTP utilities to handle entity tags,
• cache control headers,
• HTTP dates,
• cookie handling,
• file uploads,
• a URL routing system - routing system for matching URLs to endpoints and vice versa
• and addon modules.