Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-23 Thread BartlebyScrivener
I'm just learning Django and feeling my way through all of this server terminology. Where does Django's memcached feature fit into all of this? When you all speak of start up costs and memory intensive loading for each requests, doesn't the caching feature eliminate most of that overhead?

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-23 Thread joe jacob
On Nov 21, 10:27 pm, Steven Bethard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff wrote: On Nov 21, 6:25 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joe jacob a écrit : (snip) Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread Istvan Albert
On Nov 21, 12:15 am, Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that that is now debatable. Overall mod_wsgi is probably a better package in terms of what it has to offer. Only thing against mod_wsgi at this point is peoples willingness to accept something that is new in

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Bicking
On Nov 20, 7:55 am, Joe Riopel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 8:46 AM, BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Django comes with its own little server so that you don't have to set up Apache on your desktop to play with it. Pylons too, it's good for development but using the

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Nov 23, 4:00 am, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 12:15 am, Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that that is now debatable. Overall mod_wsgi is probably a better package in terms of what it has to offer. Only thing against mod_wsgi at this point is

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread TYR
Perhaps we need a pythonic FRONTEND. If you're meant to be able to run java code in a browser vm; and flash; and javascript...why not a reduced version of python? I'm thinking a sandboxed interpreter, perhaps based on EmbeddedPython, and a restricted set of classes; core logic, string and maths,

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread SamFeltus
Perhaps we need a pythonic FRONTEND. Should have happened years ago. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Bicking
On Nov 22, 11:00 am, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 12:15 am, Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that that is now debatable. Overall mod_wsgi is probably a better package in terms of what it has to offer. Only thing against mod_wsgi at this point is

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread joe jacob
separate multiple applications. Most importantly, mod_wsgi supports WSGI directly, making it reasonably trivial to run any Python web framework or application which supports the WSGI standard. The Django book says: Apache with mod_python currently is the most robust setup for using Django

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
joe jacob a écrit : (snip) Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best among the frameworks so I downloaded it and I found it very difficult to configure. ???

RE: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
-snip-- Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best among the frameworks so I downloaded it and I found it very difficult to configure. I referred the

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Jeff
On Nov 21, 6:25 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joe jacob a écrit : (snip) Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best among the

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Joe Riopel
On Nov 21, 2007 5:42 AM, joe jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best among the frameworks so I downloaded it and I found it very

RE: Python web frameworks + adobe flex

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
slight shift of topic here. I'm a newbie at standard web stuff. Mostly java webstart and a little mod_python. I experimented with Adobe Flex and really loved it for doing the front end. The backend needs to provide xml, json or AMF (an adobe proprietary binary format). For prototyping, I

Re: Python web frameworks + adobe flex

2007-11-21 Thread SamFeltus
I never used the Django AMF, I use JSON to go between Python and Flex. It works well, but lacks easy 2 way communication of course. Interfacing with Flex is a gaping hole in the Python libraries. Python needs a web framework that embraces Flex from the ground up, HTML being such a limited web

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 21, 4:42 am, joe jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Django is best among the frameworks so I downloaded it and I found it very difficult to configure. I referred the djangobook. It's not a turnkey type thing like WordPress or Joomla. It's a webframework. Also watch versions. The book

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Steven Bethard
Jeff wrote: On Nov 21, 6:25 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: joe jacob a écrit : (snip) Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best

Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread joe jacob
There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Jeff
The only one that I have used extensively is Django, which is very easy to use and quite powerful in the arena for which it was created. It has a powerful admin interface that automatically generates data entry forms for content producers and a decent template system. It has some definite

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Nov 20, 2007 7:19 AM, joe jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. I wouldn't classify mod_python as a web framework:

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Nov 20, 2007 8:46 AM, BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Django comes with its own little server so that you don't have to set up Apache on your desktop to play with it. Pylons too, it's good for development but using the bundled web server is not recommended for production. --

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 20, 6:19 am, joe jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. I'm looking at django mainly. I hope the veterans jump in with

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Bernard
On 20 nov, 07:19, joe jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. I'm making web apps with CherryPy at work and it's quite good. the

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
12/7. Django comes with its own little server so that you don't have to set up Apache on your desktop to play with it. I was rather shocked to learn that django only has this tiny server and does not come with a stand-alone server and is supposed to run as mod_python/cgi-driven app through

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Thomas Wittek
Jeff: I don't know much about the others. Turbo gears uses Mochikit, which hasn't had a new stable release in some time. I prefer jQuery myself. You can use jQuery with TurboGears if you develop custom widgets (I do so). No problem here. -- Thomas Wittek Web: http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, joe jacob wrote: There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. Personally I found zope/plone to be very much its own enormously complex world.

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
joe jacob a écrit : There are a lot of web frameworks for python like django, mod_python, spyce, turbo gears, Zope, Cherrypy etc. Which one is the best in terms of performance and ease of study. As far as I'm concerned, the winners are Django and Pylons (my own preference going to Pylons). --

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Paul Boddie
and is supposed to run as mod_python/cgi-driven app through apache. The standalone server aspect of a large number of Python Web frameworks typically involves BaseHTTPServer from the standard library, as far as I've seen, excluding things like Twisted which aspire to offer production quality

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Istvan Albert
On Nov 20, 9:42 am, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12/7. Django comes with its own little server so that you don't have to set up Apache on your desktop to play with it. I was rather shocked to learn that django only has this tiny server and does not come with a stand-alone

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Jeff
On Nov 20, 10:00 am, Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff: I don't know much about the others. Turbo gears uses Mochikit, which hasn't had a new stable release in some time. I prefer jQuery myself. You can use jQuery with TurboGears if you develop custom widgets (I do so). No

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Graham Dumpleton
Python web applications using either mod_python or mod_wsgi. People keep pushing this barrow about the GIL and multithreading being a huge problem, when in the context of Apache it is isn't, at least not to the degree people make out. The reason for this is that when using worker MPM it sill acts

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 20, 3:39 pm, Graham Dumpleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only holds if actually hosted on Apache. As Django these days supports WSGI interface there is nothing to stop it being run with other hosting solutions that support WSGI. So, you could host it under paster or CherryPy WSGI

Re: Python web frameworks

2007-11-20 Thread Graham Dumpleton
any Python web framework or application which supports the WSGI standard. The Django book says: Apache with mod_python currently is the most robust setup for using Django on a production server. Is that true? I would say that that is now debatable. Overall mod_wsgi is probably a better

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
johnbraduk a écrit : Thomas, Like many others I have been going round the same loop for months. I have struggled with most of the Python solutions, including TurboGears and have given up and gone back to ColdFusion. I am not trying to kick of a religious war about the pros and cons of

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-27 Thread johnbraduk
Thomas, Like many others I have been going round the same loop for months. I have struggled with most of the Python solutions, including TurboGears and have given up and gone back to ColdFusion. I am not trying to kick of a religious war about the pros and cons of ColdFusion as a scripting

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-22 Thread sami
See the library reference for information on how to get the value of form/request parameters from the CGI environment: http://docs.python.org/lib/node561.html Paul Thanks again Paul - now I can see that the request object is a string of name/value pairs that occurs after a ? in a url e.g.

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Boddie
On 22 Okt, 10:34, sami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the library reference for information on how to get the value of form/request parameters from the CGI environment: http://docs.python.org/lib/node561.html Paul Thanks again Paul - now I can see that the request object is a string of

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:34:55 -0300, sami [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: Thanks again Paul - now I can see that the request object is a string of name/value pairs that occurs after a ? in a url e.g. url.com/index.cgi?name=samilang=python - is that correct? Googling for this information is useless

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-22 Thread sami
Not exactly - this is the query string part of the URI. Request and Response are the two messages defined by the HTTP protocol. When you type a URL or click on a link or press a button in a page, your browser builds the appropiate Request message and sends it to the server. After processing,

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On 21 Okt, 21:59, sami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a ton Paul for the information. I am using CGI and my host (nearlyfreespeech.net) does not have django hosting - and being mainly a C/dekstop apps programmer I really don't want to learn the whole MVC concept and its implementation (and

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-21 Thread sami
However, it shouldn't be too bad to set Django up, really, especially if people have taken some time to explain something very close to what you want to do using Django. Moreover, there's a Google group (django- users) where you could ask general questions, and I imagine that people will be

using request variable in python web program

2007-10-20 Thread sami
Hi I am trying to write a facebook application in python - I have been programming simple desktop applications till now and am not really familiar with web apps Pyfacebook is the wrapper for the REST based Facebook API - there is a simple example for its usage as shown below: def

Re: using request variable in python web program

2007-10-20 Thread Paul Boddie
quickly for web apps in Python - maybe DiveIntoPython needs a section devoted for web programming There's only consensus around WSGI as some kind of standard in Python Web programming, but it isn't likely to get you very far without forcing you to choose extra components to make the work bearable

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-16 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I have posted a new version of Gluon and some slides. I am hoping to have a draft manual soon. I believe I have fixed all of the issues that have been addressed but, if not, please let me know. Massimo Did you try gluon? http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples On Oct 13, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Kay

Re: Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-15 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 14, 3:46 am, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we do agree entirely, it is just that the application we have in mind is more a collection of web services than a traditional Web application. Now, since you are here, there is an unrelated question that I want to ask

Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-14 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 14, 2:52 am, Ian Bicking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, going without a framework (which at least in his article is what Michele seems to be comparing Pylons against) isn't always so bad. I started writing an Atompub server in Pylons, but felt like I was spending too much time

Re: Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-14 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Oct 14, 6:46 pm, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, since you are here, there is an unrelated question that I want to ask you, concerning the future of Paste with respect to WSGI 2.0. I do realize that at this stage WSGI 2.0, is only a draft Hmmm, not sure where people keep

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Hello everybody, I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more over the week-end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk About some of your comments: - the most complex modules (like html

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hi Daniel, in many respects Gluon is similar to Django and was greatly inspired by Django. Some differences are: Gluon is easier to install - you never need to use the shell, there are no configuration files. Gluon is a web app. You can do all development via a web interface. You can

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
... I almost forgot ... another difference between Gluon and Django,TG is that in Gluon if you write controllers without view you automatically get generic view that render and BEAUTIFY() the variables returned by the controllers. That means you can develop the logic of your application

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
... I almost forgot ... another difference between Gluon and Django,TG is that in Gluon if you write controllers without view you automatically get generic view that render and BEAUTIFY() the variables returned by the controllers. That means you can develop the logic of your application

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 6, 8:29 am, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you (or something else) have something to say about Beaker? I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a production-level WSGI session middleware and I wonder

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 6, 8:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... Last year, I had a look at Pylons, then played a bit with wsgi and building my own framework over it. I finally dropped that code and went back to Pylons, which I felt could become far better than my own efforts.

Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hello everybody, I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more over the week-end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk About some of your comments: - the most complex modules (like html and sql

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible we have met in Pisa in 1990-1996? I am also a Quantum Field Theorist and there is not many of us. More than you think, it seems. Some of us were even using python to process Lattice QCD

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
happy to hear that. you may want take a loot at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/vqcd It is mostly python stuff and will post the code soon. Massimo On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: Massimo Di Pierro wrote: P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible we

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: happy to hear that. you may want take a loot at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/vqcd It is mostly python stuff and will post the code soon. Ah, memories :) I'm not working on QCD anymore, but I did write a bunch of code a while back to script Mayavi (the old one, not the

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 12, 10:23 pm, Massimo Di Pierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible we have met in Pisa in 1990-1996? I am also a Quantum Field Theorist and there is not many of us. That is definitely possible, even if I don't remember your

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 13, 4:23 am, Massimo Di Pierro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more over the week-end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk About

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples Well, the name is certainly appealing to an old gauge field theorist like myself ;) Michele Simionato --

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread GHUM
Michele, At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at the available options on the current market. just because you were involved in creating an own version of Python does NOT free you from the social obligation to create your own Python web framework. So stop

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 9, 11:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples This is actually a neat framework! I'm a somewhat of fan of web- frameworks and I used most major ones and I like to poke

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples Requiring Python 2.5 may not be a good idea for the time being. For instance, I am forced to use Python 2.4 because of

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces were mixed and when I open a file like

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Otten
Kay Schluehr wrote: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces were mixed and when I open a file like gluon/global.py I find sections like this: class Request(Storage): defines the request object and the default

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 10, 8:15 pm, Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Schluehr wrote: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces were mixed and when I open a file like gluon/global.py I find sections like this: class

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-09 Thread mdipierro
Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers Michele Simionato a écrit : I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a production-level WSGI session middleware and I wonder what the players are (for instance how Beaker does

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread genro
On Oct 7, 8:35 am, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers Michele Simionato a écrit : I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a production-level WSGI session middleware

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread James Matthews
But the question is when will the cheap hosting company's start to host normal python files! On 10/7/07, genro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 7, 8:35 am, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers Michele Simionato a écrit : I looked at the

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Holden
to re-architect the code from Python Web Programming in TurboGears. That was difficult not because TG is a bad system but because there was an impedance mismatch between the original code's framework and the way TG does things. I guess I would have similar problems with Django. regards Steve

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
therefore need to take advantage of new idioms in the new environment to compensate. I spent some time trying to re-architect the code from Python Web Programming in TurboGears. That was difficult not because TG is a bad system but because there was an impedance mismatch between the original

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 8:36 am, Bruno Desthuilliers Indeed. But AFAICT, Lawrence and Michele problems is not to port an existing web application, but to choose a web framework that will play well with their existing *system* (RDBMS, existing apps and libs etc). Which is quite another problem, and may

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Istvan Albert
IMO this is not as much a framework comparison rather than an evaluation of the individual components that make up Pylons. The framework is the sum of all its parts. Programmers should not need to know that that a package named Beaker is used for sessions, Routes for url mapping, PasteDeploy for

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 11:31 am, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO this is not as much a framework comparison rather than an evaluation of the individual components that make up Pylons. More in general let's say that I am interested in the evaluation of WSGI-compatible components. The framework

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 7, 12:24 pm, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we disagree: I think that a programmer should know what he is using. My point was that they should not *need* to know. Too much information can be detrimental. Where is the session data stored: in memory, files, database

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 6:14 pm, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 7, 12:24 pm, Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here we disagree: I think that a programmer should know what he is using. My point was that they should not *need* to know. Too much information can be detrimental.

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread John Nagle
Michele Simionato wrote: I wait with impatience the time when Web programming will become a solved problem with a standard built-in solution that works. That will probably come from Microsoft. At least for all-Microsoft environments. They're the only player who controls enough of the

Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at the available options on the current market. In particular I have looked at Paste and Pylons and I have written my impressions here: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/yet-another-comparison-of-web-frameworks.html I

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Thomas Wittek
Michele Simionato: At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at the available options on the current market. At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) http://turbogears.org/ For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. -- Thomas Wittek Web: http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) http://turbogears.org/ For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. Yeah, so integrated that the next version will be based upon Pylons ;-) ? -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it It is difficult to get a man to

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Tim Chase
respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give good reason why the comparison excludes them. Zope is also missing, but I'm not sure Zope qualifies so much as a framework, but as an answer to the question If Emacs were a Python web

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Jorge Godoy
Tim Chase wrote: Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give good reason why the comparison excludes them. When he said that he didn't want anything complex neither anything that used a templating system, I

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Jorge Godoy
Lawrence Oluyede wrote: Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) http://turbogears.org/ For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. Yeah, so integrated that the next version will be based upon Pylons ;-) ? What is good, since a lot of good things from

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 7:15 am, Jorge Godoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Chase wrote: Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give good reason why the comparison excludes them. Mine is not a respectable comparison of Web

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Michele Simionato a écrit : At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at the available options on the current market. In particular I have looked at Paste and Pylons and I have written my impressions here:

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 9:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - talking about routes, you say: I have no Ruby On Rails background, so I don't see the advantages of routes. I don't have any RoR neither, but as far as I'm concerned, one of the big points with routes is url_for(),

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Jorge Godoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is good, since a lot of good things from Pylons will work with TG and a lot of good TG things will remain (and possibly be compatible with Pylons). If you take a better look at the next version, you'll also see that the major concern was with WSGI

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give good reason why the comparison excludes them. I think you didn't read the foreword of the comparison. That is by no means

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Kay Schluehr
I really, really like Django (and its community and the competence of the developers) and I think it deserves what it has gained and more but we are not here to decide who's the best (there's always no best). +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Michele Simionato a écrit : On Oct 6, 9:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - talking about routes, you say: I have no Ruby On Rails background, so I don't see the advantages of routes. I don't have any RoR neither, but as far as I'm concerned, one of the big

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-24 Thread Victor Kryukov
Hello list, thanks a lot to everybody for their suggestions. We're yet to make our final decision, and the information you've provided is really helpful. Best, Victor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Ströder
John Nagle wrote: Sure they do. I have a complex web site, http://www.downside.com;, that's implemented with Perl, Apache, and MySQL. It automatically reads SEC filings and parses them to produce financial analyses. It's been running for seven years, and hasn't been modified in five,

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Ivan Tikhonov
Use php. I am lead programmer/maintainer of big website with a lot of interactive stuff in user's backoffice and with a lot of interraction to our non-web apps. PHP is a crap, but programming for web in python is a pain in the ass. And php programmers are cheaper. Especialy avoid mod_python.

RE: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solidhigh-tr affic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Sells, Fred
I just started using flex (flex.org) from Adobe for the front end and am quite amazed at what it can do. Good docs. Clean client/server api if you like xml. It's relatively new so you still have to turn over some rocks and kiss some frogs to figure out how to get exactly the behavior you want

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Matthew Nuzum
anything else you mentioned. #4 (optional) Has your dev team built many python web-apps? I'm guessing no, or you'd already have picked a platform because of experience. If they have not, I'd personally also ask for a platform that is easy to learn, works well with the dev tools (IDE, debugger

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Ivan Tikhonov a écrit : Use php. I am lead programmer/maintainer of big website with a lot of interactive stuff in user's backoffice and with a lot of interraction to our non-web apps. PHP is a crap, but programming for web in python is a pain in the ass. Strange enough, MVHO on this is

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
John Nagle a écrit : (snip) YouTube's home page is PHP. Try www.youtube.com/index.php. That works, while the obvious alternatives don't. If you look at the page HTML, you'll see things like a href=/login?next=/index.php onclick=_hbLink('LogIn','UtilityLinks');Log In/a So

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread João Santos
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

Re: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

2007-05-21 Thread ddddddddd dddddddddddddd
[Bruno Desthuilliers] John, I'm really getting tired of your systemic and totally unconstructive criticism. If *you* are not happy with Python, by all means use another language. You are saying bad things about my darling! Python is my baby! Shame on you John Nagle, if you do it again I'll

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