I read through the tutorial on the cherrypy website, and I'm still having some trouble understanding how it can be implemented in a modular, scalable way.
Could someone show me an example of how to have cherrypy receive a simple http post to its root, process the variable in some way, and respond dynamically using that data in the response?
Are you asking for an example like this?
http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyTutorial#ReceivingdatafromHTMLforms
It receives input from forms.
You can return any text you want from a CherryPy method function, so dynamic text based on the input is really trivial.
from cherrypy import expose
class Adder:
@expose
def index(self):
return '''<html>
<body>
<form action="add">
<input name="a" /> + <input name="b"> =
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>'''
@expose
def add(self, a, b):
return str(int(a) + int(b))
if __name__ == "__main__":
from cherrypy import quickstart
quickstart(Adder())
Run the script and then open a browser on http://localhost:8080