Recommended python library/framework for local web app?

Question

I want to create a simple LOCAL web app in Python.

The web server and \"back-end\" code will run on the same system (initially, Windows system) as the UI. I doubt it

Answer 1

I've used BaseHTTPServer for this purpose. It's a web server built in to the Python standard library, and lets you have full control over the content you deliver.

Since it's part of Python's standard library, you don't have to worry about any platform-specific configuration. I've used the same local server script on a Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X system without modification.

A sample bit of code might be:

import BaseHTTPServer

class Handler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write("Hello world!")

server_address = ('', 8080)
httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(server_address, Handler)
httpd.serve_forever()