Hello list, our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team: everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice clean syntax etc. Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not the bugs in our tools. Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic, scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was used there. TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features - probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py - unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement either, or so it seems. So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python + Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very well'. And although http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ lists many big names and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting example - anybody knows more details about that? Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome! Best Regards, Victor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
