Creating RESTful web applications and working with Flask and HTTP requests

In this section, you will learn how to create RESTful web applications and work with HTTP requests with Flask. You will manage the separation of application logic and HTML with the Flask template engine.

Introducing Flask

Flask is a micro framework designed to facilitate the development of web applications under the MVC pattern and provides a simple interface. The main advantage is that it doesn't require any complex preconfiguration; all we need to do is install it with a command:

>>> pip install flask
 Downloading/unpacking flask

Flask can also be downloaded from the project's home page at http://flask.pocoo.org. Note that to run...