Google app engine setup basics

1. download pythonxx (x stands for the particular version that is currentely available)
http://www.python.org/download/
2.  now download google app engine.
http://code.google.com/appengine/downloads.html
3. now create a folder for example hello.

app engine has configuration file called app.yaml

Among other things this file describes which handerl scripts should be used with which urls


# first line please indication the name of your application for example helloworld

application: helloworld

# version number
version: 1

# run time enviroment at the oment python and java are the main languages
runtime: python
# the version of the api
api_version 1

# handlers are very useful to structuring your document
it uses regular rexpression to find the url paths.
An example of this is the /stylesheets
handlers:
  -url : /stylesheets
  static_dir: stylesheet

# lastly the name of the script is helloworld.py
    script: helloworld.py