Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-11 Thread Robert Berry
Flask is a good choice for what you want to do. I'd suggest using SQLAlchemy with it. It's an absolutely excellent DB abstraction layer / ORM. William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-11 Thread Jay Luker
+1 for Flask. We've started using it as an upgrade over web.py for simple one-off stuff, and are also in the process of integrating it into a much larger application. i.e., it scales both ways. --jay -- ** Jay Luker Astrophysics

[CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread William Denton
I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON in response to request. I'd like to do it in Python so I can get to know the language. StackOverflow is filled with comparisons of Python web frameworks, but I wanted to get the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Have a look at Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org/ It's our default get something up and running quickly Python framework. -Andrew On 2012-07-10, at 8:05 PM, William Denton wrote: I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread Francis Kayiwa
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:05:26PM -0400, William Denton wrote: I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON in response to request. I'd like to do it in Python so I can get to know the language. StackOverflow is filled

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
I've never used Flask, but it looks quite slick and simple (compared with Django). It makes use of some other components (werkzeug, jinja, etc.) so your Flask skills could be repurposed. Depending on your operational environment, it may not be, uh, enterprise-y enough for some folks. -Mike On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread Matt McCollow
I've been working on a project with django-tastypie (http://tastypieapi.org/) the last couple days. It's making it really easy to create RESTful web services that output JSON. Basically all you do is write your data models like you normally would with django, write classes that inherit