Thanks for the link - it was very informative as to pylons vs. django.
I had already decided on pylons - mainly because of sqlalchemy. For
sure, though, there is a bigger learning curve with pylons. As far as
lacking an admin interface, I have been playing with rum, and it seems
to do a lot of what you would like. (That's what's cool about pylons -
it's easy to add/subtract various elements).

On Jul 16, 8:17 am, afrotypa <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are the specifics? In what aspects is it easier to develop in
> Django?. I havent ever used Django, but I heard that while Django apps
> may be easier to develop (if minimal subsequent customization of
> boilerplate is required), it may be harder on the outset to customize
> Django apps. Is a Django app now more amenable to customization than
> before?.
>
> Pylons apps on the other hand (from my experience) require a bit of a
> learning curve to get started, however there is a lot of inherent
> flexibility in how you can customize your pylons app.
>
> There are many discussions on this subject. Here is one of them :-
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/88zyd/django_or_pylons_w...
>
> On Jul 15, 5:44 pm, "Tom Longson (nym)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I know people here won't like me saying this, but I recommend looking
> > at Django. If you have real heavy lifting on ORM, it's not as good,
> > but for 98% of the time Django is easier to develop in than Pylons.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Tom Longson (nym)
> > ------------------------------http://tomlongson.com
>
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, DavidG<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hmmmm. Anyone?
>
> > > On Jul 14, 11:55 am, DavidG <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
>
> > >> I am in the midst of developing a "fairly simple" application site,
> > >> but where traffic in the real world might be in the "moderate" range
> > >> (not low, but not a mega site).
>
> > >> I have been using python for years, and developed several successful
> > >> low-traffic sites with it, using various python web tools from my own,
> > >> to myghty, mod_python, pylons...I certainly enjoy the programming
> > >> aspect of python, but when you want to get a site up and reliably
> > >> running and scaled (and find people to maintain it), perhaps other
> > >> factors besides the "language" are more important.
>
> > >> Question: is pylons ready for prime time? If one were to develop a
> > >> moderate-volume, solid site, is python with pylons the "best" thing to
> > >> use? How would a pylons site stack up against sites made with php,
> > >> rails, java?  (btw, I anticipate deploying using Apache and the paste
> > >> server via reverse-proxy).
>
> > >> Here are things to consider:
>
> > >> 1. ease/speed of programming
> > >> 2. ease of testing
> > >> 3. scalability
> > >> 4. reliability
> > >> 5. maintainability
> > >> 6. flexibility
> > >> 7. availability of good libraries
>
> > >> I realize these questions have been asked before, but having my
> > >> initial "alpha" nearly finished in pylons, doubts are setting in as to
> > >> how deployable and scalable in the *real world* this system might be.
> > >> I know that *a lot* of sites (especially large ones) use php (which,
> > >> as a language, I am less then crazy about). And various java
> > >> frameworks (but java is so much work!). And rails? Well, there seems
> > >> to be a bit of a controversy as to its performance, flexibility and
> > >> scalability.
>
> > >> Interested in any thoughts folks might have. Thanks.
>
>
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