Creating a simple web page using CherryPy

To get started, let's build the most basic of programs with CherryPy. By this, I mean, of course, the ubiquitous Hello World program that we will use to say Hello Raspberry Pi!. We will work through a few examples before we build a dashboard to display weather data using a modified version of the CurrentWeather class from Chapter 4, Subscribing to Web Services.

Hello Raspberry Pi!

To build the Hello Raspberry Pi! web page, do the following:

1. Open up Thonny from Application Menu | Programming | Thonny Python IDE.
2. Click on the New icon to create a new file.

3. Type the following:

import cherrypy
 
class HelloWorld():
     
     @cherrypy.expose
     def index(self):
         return &quot...