Spyce is technology similar to
PHP
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that can be used to embed
Python code into
webpages. Spyce is
free software
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, distributed under a
BSD-style licence, with some additional restrictions about documentation notices.
Common Spyce embedding methods
Since Python uses indentation to determine the beginning and end of a block, Spyce includes several ways to embed Python
code. Shown below are the three most common ways. Spyce supports
ASP
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Places
* Asp, part of Densbüren, Aargau, Switzerland
* Aspe (''Asp'' in Valencian), Alicante, Spain
* Asp Lake, a lake in Minnesota
Animals
* Asp (fish)
* Asp (snake), in antiquity, one of several venomous snakes
** ''Cera ...
/
JSP-style
delimiter
A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as ...
s (
<% and
%>) as well as double braces (
and
)
The techniques above can be freely mixed and embedded in any
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
document.
Any legal Python code can be embedded and any Python module can be imported, which makes it especially suited for writing very robust applications (using
exception handling
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and
unit test
In computer programming, unit testing is a software testing method by which individual units of source code—sets of one or more computer program modules together with associated control data, usage procedures, and operating procedures&m ...
ing single modules individually).
Features
Some other features include custom tags (ala JSP), spyce
lambdas and
active handlers (reminiscent of ASP).
Requirements
Spyce brings Python's standard library and the programming language itself to the web. The minimum requirement is a working Python installation (it ships with a standalone web server written in Python that can be used during development), although it can be used in conjunction with several web servers such as Apache and IIS in a variety of ways.
Configuration is done using Python modules that are imported by the web server during initialization, so all that is really required to get started with Spyce is basic knowledge of Python.
See also
*
mod_python
mod_python is an Apache HTTP Server module that integrates the Python programming language with the server. It is intended to provide a Python language binding for the Apache HTTP Server.
When mod_python released it was one of the more efficient ...
References
External links
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