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I have made a brief overview of Python Web modules.
Note that this document can become corrupted, presumably due to the hosting provider's banner system, so an alternative location is available: Web Modules Overview
Moving on from the XForms for Webware concept, which worked quite well but lacked the right internal architecture for the aspirations I had for the package, I have now started to develop its successor: XMLForms for Webware.
The package can be downloaded (and used if you have already installed Python, PyXML 0.6.5 or later, possibly, and Webware 0.5 or later): XMLForms-0.1.4.tar.gz
Note that some browsers may experience difficulties with the hosting provider's download sequence. As a result, I have made the package available elsewhere: XMLForms-0.1.4.tar.gz
If that doesn't work, try Michael Doornbos' site: XMLForms-0.1.4.tar.gz
The documentation in the Docs directory is available here.
Now superseded by XMLForms for Webware.
Something I wanted to do for a while was to implement a structured Web forms development environment. At last, I have implemented an XForms for Webware package which allows developers to specify the structure of data manipulated by Web applications and the output used to describe such structures in a notation which is almost like that described in the XForms specification. Moreover, I have added some support for connecting screens in an application together in a nearly-structured fashion, with an eventual aim to make it as simple as possible to define a sequence of interactions between a user and a Web application without needing to mess around with low-level implementation details of the communications or server environments in use.
You can even download the package (and use it if you have already installed Python and Webware):
For those of you wondering whether this work is like anything else out there, I have found Barracuda to be similar in terms of objectives.
I developed some ideas about workflow and information management which are still in a very early stage of formulation. However, they did inform the XForms for Webware work, and I believe that they could be useful to consider in future for other work.
I once developed some Web Application
Development Tools for the Python
programming language, including the cgi_wrapper program, which
also informed the XForms for Webware work. However, these tools attempt to do
themselves what Webware does at a
low level on behalf of my XForms framework.
The mxODBC Configuration Guide - if you have spent a significant amount of time trying to get the Python programming language package known as mxODBC to work with various database systems, then this guide may help. It's more likely that you spent most of your time trying to get various ODBC drivers and their "multi tier" component contemporaries to work out that they share a computer with a database system.
I have been playing with COM on Windows 2000, along with Outlook and Exchange (via Outlook). After some investigation, I wrote a nice little program which allows you to interactively view folder and contact item information. It is best run at the DOS prompt, although I suppose it could be run in PythonWin if you really had to. I even made some notes about this subject.
Having acquired a Palm III, I have prepared some notes on getting it to work with UNIX workstations. Meanwhile, I managed to get the Linux-based laptop I use to talk to a Cisco router using the serial port; it really isn't obvious unless you know how.
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