StepByStep Index

Retrieving POP3 Email with poplib
Getting your mail through POP3 is easy with Python's poplib library. Here is how to use getpass and poplib to script your mail retrieval and to make a local backup of your mailbox.

Testing CGI With Python
Testing CGI scripts can be a tedious task, especially when you do not know the environmental variables under which you are programming. Here is a simple script that gives you the information you need.

Programming Secure Web Applications in Python
Programming for security is an imperative for the web programmer. Any sloppy coding can be exploited and amount to significant financial and personal losses. Here are some tips on programming Python securely.

Creating HTML and XHTML Pages in Python - With and Without CGI
This tutorial discusses how to use Python and CGI to create HTML pages on the fly. It covers plain HTML pages as well as HTML forms. It assumes that you are familiar with CGI basics.

How Python Processes Non-English RSS Feeds
Multilingual processing in Python is important for Python web application development. This tutorial shows how to process multilingual texts for a Python-powered RSS Reader.

Part 4: Handling Errors the Way You Want
A Python program is not fully-functional until it crashes the way you want, handling errors. Here we look at error checking for the Python-powered RSS Reader.

Part 2: Getting Feed Information From the Data File With Python
The first step in any software project is understanding the problem and then laying the groundwork. Here we consider the tasks of an RSS Reader and lay the groundwork in HTML, CGI, and PHP.

Part 3: Creating a Feed Class and Finishing the Python Program
The first step in any software project is understanding the problem and then laying the groundwork. Here we build a Python program that fetches RSS feeds and presents them in HTML via CGI or via PHP and Javascript

Part 1: Laying the Groundwork with HTML, CGI, and PHP
first step in any software project is understanding the problem and then laying the groundwork. Here we consider the tasks of an RSS Reader and lay the groundwork in HTML, CGI, and PHP.

Part 2: Getting Feed Information From the Data File With Python
The first step in any software project is understanding the problem and then laying the groundwork. Here we consider the tasks of an RSS Reader and lay the groundwork in HTML, CGI, and PHP.

Using PHP and Javascript instead of CGI
So you have moved to a new job in data processing as part of web application development. At your old job, you used CGI for to process forms, but the new server does not allow CGI. The hotshot AJAX guru who left only has PHP and Javascript. You don't have time to muck about with Apache. What's a Python programmer supposed to do? Flourish and excel, and this tutorial will show you how.

Programming CGI With Python
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