Does Django have a simple to follow tutorial on passing user input to
scripts?? I saw the tutorial on the site about making a poll but I'm
not interested in that. I want to be able to upload files, and get
input from the user.

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Rob Yates <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a bit biased as I'm a full-time Django developer, but your angst should 
> be with macports and not with Django. Django is a single directory that 
> contains no compiled code and following their fantastic documentation is 
> really easy. Granted Django may be a bit more functionality than you need in 
> a framework, but ease of installation and stellar documentation are two of 
> it's strong traits.
>
> If you feel the need to use a "package manager", you really should be using 
> easy_install or even better pip, but not macports. Assuming you're on a 
> recent flavor of OS X, most of what you need is built-in to the o/s anyway.
>
> -Rob
>
> On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Bradley Hintze <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> I am fairly comfortable with unix commands and security, I still have
>> a lot to learn though.
>>
>> I have a bad taste in my moth for Django as I installed it and
>> couldn't find where the files were put, and thus couldn't follow the
>> one and only Django tutorial. When I asked on the Django mailing list
>> for help I got no response. I restored my machine to a previous
>> back-up to get rid of all the Django 'stuff' wherever it was. If I
>> could get help installing it correctly I might give it a go.
>>
>> The problem that I'm seing is most these frameworks don't give you
>> step by step instructions on how to download and install.
>> How about pylons? I looked at their site and they have decent
>> instructions AND tutorials. Surprisingly, I have yet to come across a
>> tutorial outlining how to retrieve user input from a form which should
>> be, from my limited view, the primary function of a framework as that
>> is the crucial aspect of a dynamic web app. If anyone knows of a good
>> tutorial let me know.
>>
>> Also, I've seen that some of these frameworks have you staat up their
>> own server. Why run their server and apache? Or can theses frameworks
>> use apache?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Damjan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I am making an app where I pass variables and run lots of scripts. I
>>>> don't think a frame work can do what I am trying to do, manual control
>>>> is a must. Plus the framework documentation that I've seen is
>>>> difficult to understand. I was raised as a biochemist not a programmer
>>>> ;) If you can point out an easy to understand frame work I'll
>>>> certainty take a look.
>>>
>>> Since you don't have much experience with Web apps or WSGI, I'd
>>> strongly suggest to start with some framework.
>>>
>>> Django has pretty good documentation and even if I personally don't
>>> use it, I think it's very good for newbies. You could also look at
>>> flask - it has great documentation too, but you need to know more
>>> about web apps with it - http://flask.pocoo.org/. It's perhaps on the
>>> opposite end of the spectrum of web frameworks compared to Django, but
>>> has good documentation too.
>>>
>>>
>>> From your comments in this group, I would not suggest you to use plain
>>> WSGI. You will need to understand and know much more about http, html,
>>> security issues etc.
>>>
>>> Also, if your application is not going to be heavily visited, you
>>> might not need mod_wsgi either. Most WSGI frameworks come with their
>>> own python server.
>>>
>>> And last, learn to use virtualenv and pip, and you will be able to
>>> pack your entire web application, including Django in a single
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> And lear some Unix command line interface (or shell), it will really
>>> make your life easier.
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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