general ease-of-coding in my opinion. If you'd like a very concise and
well-written introduction, this book, Learning Python by O'Reilly
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython/) is great.
One great thing about Python is the interactive shell - you can invoke
it from the command line and write scripts interactively without having
to do the save > compile > run thing. It's great for learning the
language, but it's even better for testing modules.
I'm actually using Python and Coldfusion together with a tool called
Jython - an all-Java implementation of the Python language. I can
import any Java class/interface/what have you into my Jython program and
run it as I would any other Python app. The difference, however, is
that it's compiled into Java bytecode, and is invokable inside any Java
application, like, well, ColdFusion. I've written some simple CFX tags
in Jython and am currently working on using Jython to help write a Java
app framework for CFMX to connect to.
You can write web apps in Zope/Python - and once you're familiar with
the syntax and pecadilloes of Python (tabbing and whitespace are VERY
important) it's fairly straightforward.
- Jim
Glen Salisbury wrote:
> Hey everyone.
>
> I've currently been asked by my boss to do a large application in Zope.
> (www.zope.org)
>
> We always done Coldfusion but despite the fact that he is not technical,
> he's certain that the project we are doing could be built faster in
> Zope. Despite that I've already made a case that Zope market is tiny,
> (try doing a job search on it) and that none of the dev team knows Python
> (yet).
> Does anyone have any pros / cons that are fact based that a case could be
> made
> either way?
>
> Has anyone here coded in Python? If so which is faster to code in?
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> - Glen Salisbury
> Application Engineer
>
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