Section 20.9. Related Modules


20.9. Related Modules

In Table 20.7, we present a list of modules which you may find useful for Web development. You may also wish to look at the Internet Client Programming in Chapter 17, as well as the Web services section of Chapter 23 for other modules that may be useful for Web applications.

Table 20.7. Web Programming Related Modules

Module/Package

Description

Web Applications

 

cgi

Gets Common Gateway Interface (CGI) form data

cgitb[c]

Handles CGI tracebacks

htmllib

Older HTML parser for simple HTML files; HTML-Parser class extends from sgmllib.SGMLParser

HTMLparser[c]

Newer non-SGML-based parser for HTML and XHTML

htmlentitydefs

HTML general entity definitions

Cookie

Server-side cookies for HTTP state management

cookielib[e]

Cookie-handling classes for HTTP clients

webbrowser[b]

Controller: launches Web documents in a browser

sgmllib

Parses simple SGML files

robotparser[a]

Parses robots.txt files for URL "fetchability" analysis

httplib[a]

Used to create HTTP clients

XML Processing

 

xmllib

(Outdated/deprecated) original simple XML parser

xml[b]

XML package featuring various parsers (some below)

xml.sax[b]

Simple API for XML (SAX) SAX2-compliant XML parser

xml.dom[b]

Document Object Model [DOM] XML parser

xml.etree[f]

Tree-oriented XML parser based on the Element flexible container object

xml.parsers.expat[b]

Interface to the non-validating Expat XML parser

xmlrpclib[c]

Client support for XML Remote Procedure Call (RPC) via HTTP

XML Processing

 

SimpleXMLRPCServer[c]

Basic framework for Python XML-RPC servers

DocXMLRPCServer[d]

Framework for self-documenting XML-RPC servers

Web Servers

 

BaseHTTPServer

Abstract class with which to develop Web servers

SimpleHTTPServer

Serve the simplest HTTP requests (HEAD and GET)

CGIHTTPServer

In addition to serving Web files like SimpleHTTPServers, can also process CGI (HTTP POST) requests

wsgiref[f]

Standard interface between Web servers and Python Web application

3rd party packages (not in standard library)

HTMLgen

CGI helper converts Python objects into valid HTML http://starship.python.net/crew/friedrich/HTMLgen/html/main.html

BeautifulSoup

HTML and XML parser and screen-scraper http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup

Mail Client Protocols

poplib

Use to create POP3 clients

imaplib

Use to create IMAP4 clients

Mail and MIME Processing and Data Encoding Formats

email[c]

Package for managing e-mail messages, including MIME and other RFC2822-based message

mailbox

Classes for mailboxes of e-mail messages

mailcap

Parses mailcap files to obtain MIME application delegations

Mail and MIME Processing and Data Encoding Formats

mimetools

Provides functions for manipulating MIME-encoded messages

mimetypes

Provides MIME-type associations

MimeWriter

Generates MIME-encoded multipart files

multifile

Can parse multipart MIME-encoded files

quopri

En-/decodes data using quoted-printable encoding

rfc822

Parses RFC822-compliant e-mail headers

smtplib

Uses to create SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) clients

base64

En-/decodes data using base64 encoding

binascii

En-/decodes data using base64, binhex, or uu (modules)

binhex

En-/decodes data using binhex4 encoding

uu

En-/decodes data using uuencode encoding

Internet Protocols

 

httplib[a]

Used to create HTTP clients

ftplib

Used to create FTP (File Transfer Protocol) clients

gopherlib

Used to create Gopher clients

telnetlib

Used to create Telnet clients

nntplib

Used to create NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol [Usenet]) clients


[c] New in Python 2.2.

[e] New in Python 2.4.

[b] New in Python 2.0.

[a] New in Python 1.6.

[f] New in Python 2.5.

[d] New in Python 2.3.



Core Python Programming
Core Python Programming (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0132269937
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 334
Authors: Wesley J Chun

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