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Choose Your Own Pyventure/Webpy Hello World
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''' A simple Hello,World in web.py!'''
# make sure the 'web' dir from web.py is in
# the same directory
import web
# the url mapper, maps /(anything!) to the
# 'hello' class.
urls = (
'/(.*)', 'hello'
)
# create the actual application
app = web.application(urls, globals())
# a class for handling url requests
# to handle requests, the class must have a
# GET method that returns text
class hello:
def GET(self, name):
if not name:
name = 'world'
return 'Hello, ' + name + '!'
# just include these 2 lines, which will seem magical for
# now, don't worry about it!
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()