Have you ever wanted to know what it would take to actually write a website in python? Some kind of simple project that would allow you to learn how python creates a front end using just the standard library is easy.
You simply need to use http.server and socketserver.
Define a port and create a class that inherits the simple http request handler.
PORT = 9999
class myhttprequesthandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
After this you will want to create a method that will serve the HTML content
def do_GET(self):
# This will serve the HTML content
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
# HTML content of the webpage
html = '''
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Simple Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to My Simple Page</h1>
<p>This is a single page website created using Python's standard library.</p>
</body>
</html>
'''
self.wfile.write(html.encode('utf-8'))
return
Now you just set the handler
handler_object = MyHttpRequestHandler
Then Just bring it all together and make sure that you create a tcp server using the socket server
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), handler_object) as httpd:
print("Server started at localhost:" + str(PORT))
httpd.serve_forever()
Once you’ve got all this code completed you will be able to modify this code in order to expand the information.
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