This tutorial describes how to develop and deploy a simple Python 2.7 project with Google App Engine. The example project, a guest book, demonstrates how to use the Python runtime environment, and how to use several App Engine services, including the datastore and the Google user service.

This tutorial has the following sections:

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