On Nov 17, 4:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Nov 17, 12:07 pm, "walterbyrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think I have read somewhere that using Python to develop > > web-applications requires some restarting of the Apache server, whereas > > PHP does not.It depends what you do. CGI's operate much like PHP. > > mod_python has > auto-reloading (and by implication most frameworks that build on it.) A > poorly designed web application may require a restart. (Some people > also disable auto-reload for production servers for performance > advantages.) > > > Also, I seem to remember reading something about PHP being able to > > recover from Apache restarting more easily than Python.I can think of no > > reason why that would be true. Perhaps these are > poorly designed python applications? > > > I am not trying to suggest anything here. I'm just asking.Ask away. The > > only bad question is an unasked question. Most of us can > act like adults here (although we all forget that from time to time.) > > Python is much better suited to writing and mainting large web > applications though. Being both an experienced php and python > programmer, I can tell you I don't use php any more unless I have no > other choice. > > -Sandra
Sandra do you us ethe msot up to date php and python? how fast is fastcgi v mod_python? Have you ever used medusa? or some other python server directly? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list