Web2py was created by Massimo Di Pierro, a professor of computer science at DePaul University, as his attempt to build a Python-based Web framework that was easy to use as well as powerful.

Web2py’s rendering system will try to find a view that — depending on context — displays an object in HTML, XML, JSON, or any of the half-dozen protocols the framework supports.

There are many valid ways to do this, but my first choice is Web2Py, a relatively easy to use open-source framework for developing web applications in Python. It supports both Python 2.7 and 3.0 ...