The bottle is a lightweight, WSGI-based micro web framework package for the Python language. One of the best features of this package is that it is distributed as a single file and it supports Python 2.7 and Python 3. This package is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Features of Bottle
- No dependency other than the standard python library.
- Easy to use and faster than other frameworks.
- Supports routing and templates (like Django).
- It has a built-in HTTP server; and also supports WSGI-based HTTP servers.
- Still developing and evolving (at the time of this article’s writing).
Installation of Bottle on Windows OS
Step 1: Check the python installation for version 2.7.x or python 3. Type “python” in a Windows terminal. If it opens an interface as shown below then, continue to the next step else, download the latest version of python from https://www.python.org/.
Step 2: Open Windows Terminal and type the following command,
pip install bottle |
Step 3: To check the proper installation of the bottle package, open the python command line and type the following,
from bottle import route
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If it runs without error like in the figure below then, the bottle package is installed successfully.