Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | News | Open Source
A new book on CherryPy, the popular Python library for web development, has been released today by Packt Publishing. In an additional move designed to help support CherryPy, Packt is paying a percentage of all book sales directly to the project.
CherryPy is a Python library for web development that allows developers to build web applications in the same way as any other object-oriented Python program. Enriched by several years of active development, it has become one of the most established toolkits for building solid and high-performance web applications in Python. CherryPy abstracts the complex low-level HTTP protocol into an easy-to-use interface that respects Python idioms. The library aims at being simple to learn for a beginner while offering the most advanced features to fluent Python developers. For these reasons CherryPy was chosen to be at the heart of the popular and feature-rich TurboGears web framework.
Released in both paper and eBook formats, ‘CherryPy Essentials’ covers the CherryPy library for Python web development from its history and installation through its main features and core concepts to its integration with Python and other products to construct, test, and deploy a sample photoblog application. Author Sylvain Hellegouarch is dedicated to the development of free software projects and has been coordinating and administrating the community efforts around the CherryPy project since 2004. The approach based on an example application introduces many other common Python libraries, providing transferable skills also relevant for non-web Python projects.
As an open source project, CherryPy is free to download. This means that it survives through volunteers and donations from an enthusiastic community. In a move designed to demonstrate their support, and to help provide a sustainable source of revenue for the project, Packt is paying CherryPy a percentage of every book sold. “This is something we do for all open source projects that we publish books on” explains Packt spokesman Damian Carvill. Carvill goes on to state that Packt’s aim is to “establish publishing royalties as an essential part of the service and support business model that sustains Open Source.”
CherryPy Essentials: Rapid Python Web Application Development is published by Packt and is out now. For more information, please visit www.PacktPub.com/cherrypy/book
