Christopher Lenz (cmlenz) just wrote an excellent tutorial on Genshi because I was whining about how I couldn’t get a handle on the right way to use Genshi. While the tutorial’s primary target is Genshi, its an excellent tutorial on CherryPy and a little FormEncode as well (as well as other Python concepts like decorators).
If you have a basic knowledge of Python and are interested in Python web development, Genshi’s Tutorial is an excellent place to start.
In Debian Lenny/Sid or Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon you can install the packages listed in the Prerequisites section simply by doing:
sudo apt-get install python-cherrypy3 python-formencode python-paste python-genshi
Henceforth, I will call the next version of Ubuntu “gusty gibbon”
[...] While I already posted about the excellent Genshi Tutorial, the author, cmlenz, has continued adding to it. The tutorial is now an excellent introduction to building a reddit/digg style link sharing site complete with pretty AJAX (using jQuery), Atom Feeds, and HTML posting with XSS sanitizing. [...]