Getting Started with App Engine

This tutorial describes how to develop and deploy a simple Python project with Google App Engine. The example project, a guest book, demonstrates how to setup the Python runtime environment, how to use webapp2 and several App Engine services, including the datastore and the Google user service.

This tutorial has the following sections:

• Introduction
• The Development Environment
• Hello, World!
• Using the webapp2 Framework
• Using the Users Service
• Handling Forms with webapp2
• Using the Datastore
• Using Templates
• Using Static Files
• Uploading Your Application

Note

This tutorial is a port from the official Python Getting Started guide from Google App Engine, created by the App Engine team and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.