Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-27 Thread Jeff FW
Saurabh, No problem--happy to help. And I won't ignore your last question. The server I was referring to was, indeed, a layer of insulation--but not for Django. Its purpose is to avoid giving the GUI clients direct access to the database, by delivering objects back and forth across the

Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-26 Thread Saurabh Agrawal
Hi Jeff, Thanks again for all the info. Can I trouble you a little more, for something which in fact, might not be Django related at all? You can choose to completely ignore this message, of course. I just want to know what is this server you are talking about? Is that some kind of insulation

Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-26 Thread Jeff FW
This sounds, to me, like a great candidate for using Django. Each of the separate modules you described could be a distinct application within your project. Actually, you could make it even more granular than that, as a lot of the parts within each module could be separate apps. The Django

Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-25 Thread Saurabh Agrawal
Hi, Thanks for the wonderful inputs. All right, I will give you the actual scenario and maybe you guys can help me further: I think the application should have 4 modules, interconnected with each other and accessible via proper user perms: 1. The front office: This will have all student

Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff FW
Saurabh, I have spent the past year developing a GUI application (using wxPython) that communicates with a server (using Twisted), which connects to a PostgresQL database (using SQLAlchemy.) It has been a very rewarding experience learning and using all of these tools. However, the learning

Re: Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-24 Thread GRoby
Hello, I have written a couple of mini applications that used Tkinter (simple toolkit for building Python GUI apps) and utilized the Django ORM with PostGreSQL. I imported Django using code like: PathDjangoRoot="/var/djangoroot/" if(not PathDjangoRoot in sys.path):

Usage opinion wanted

2008-11-24 Thread Saurabh Agrawal
Hi group: I hope that you good people here could help me with a decision I am finding hard to make. I am about to develop a MIS type application for a Non for profit organization teaching young children in India. I am trying to use this opportunity to make myself learn python, and if required