A4 portrait - PET: Python Entre Todos - Python Argentina

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Summary:
In this article we have introduced web2py, a powerful tool for coding Web sites
quickly and easily. The idea is to go deeper and to expand each topic in more detail in
later articles.
In our view, is a very good choice to start with web development without losing focus
on performing advanced applications in the future.
As an advice, we recommend to subscribe to the Google user group
(http://groups.google.com/group/web2py), where you can consult and review the
news and updates, since web2py moves at a fast pace, including many new features
in each version.
Resources:
• Official Site: http://www.web2py.com/
• Google User Group: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py-users
• Main documentation (free access book published in html):
http://www.web2py.com/book
• Cheat sheet: web2py-reference.pdf (http://bit.ly/a7fWSZ)
How is this magazine made?
Author: Roberto Alsina Translation: Andrés Gattinoni
This magazine is an emergent output of PyAr (http://python.org.ar), the group of
Python developers in Argentina. Being a project created by programmers for
programmers (and not a project by graphic designers for graphic designers), it has
its advantages and disadvantages.
The disadvantage is in plain sight. I had to take care of the visual design. I apologize
for any eye-bleeding I may have caused you.
The advantage is that one of us (me) had already grabbed some piece of software
(created by a bunch of other people) and kicked it in the butt until I got something
resembling a magazine (a book (http://nomuerde.netmanagers.com.ar)).
So, our programming genes allow us to have a decentralized infrastructure for the
design of online magazines, which is multiuser, multi role, multi output (PDF and
HTML so far) and automatic.
How automatic? Updating the design of the entire site and the PDF is one command.
These are some of the tools we used, all of them are free software:
git and gitosis
A great tool for version control and a great tool for repository management.
restructured text
A markup format for documents. One can create simple text files and get an output
in almost any format.
rest2web
Turns our text files into a website.
rst2pdf
Creates PDFs from restructured text.
PET: English Translation (Issue 1, August 2010) — http://revista.python.org.ar