Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-15 Thread Alan Plum
On 2011-09-11 02:50, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: I replied to that one off list I guess, but I figured Django was way more overhead than I wanted, doesn't really fit with solving the speed issue. Depending on your needs, you may find something like bottle or Flask a better choice then.

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-15 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.1164.1316093103.27778.python-l...@python.org, Alan Plum m...@alanplum.com wrote: Django can be scaled down a lot, but it's a full-featured framework at its heart. You can pick and chose which parts of django you want to use. You don't need to use any of the Django model

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-13 Thread alex23
On Sep 10, 1:54 pm, Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com wrote: I'm not feeling particularly masochistic, so I do not want to develop this project in PHP; essentially I'm looking to build a web-based MMO. Google have been promoting the use of appengine along with HTML5 JS to produce games.

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Roberts
Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com wrote: I don't much care for PHP, but the thing that can be said for it is it's pretty quick. How does Python compare? PHP is quick for development, in that you can slap together some schlock and have it mostly work. The result, however, is usually

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-11 Thread Laurent
+1 for PostgreSQL. It's faster than MySQL for years now, and is much more seriously featured. If you don't need ACID properties (transactions stuff) you should also give Document-based databases like MongoDB a try. It changed my code life. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-11 Thread hidura
-bounces+hidura=gmail@python.org Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:48:01 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: using python in web applications Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com wrote: I don't much care for PHP, but the thing that can be said for it is it's pretty quick. How does Python

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-10 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/9/2011 10:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Littlefield, Tylerty...@tysdomain.com writes: I'm curious if there are some good solutions for using Python in web applications. Start with: URL:http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html#frameworks URL:http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-10 Thread Laurent
[troll] For a serious web based MMO you'd rather stick to low level and forget about bloated Object Relational Mapping java-like layered kind of frameworks that are made for Rapid Applications Development, not for efficiency. [/troll] Eve Online, a well known MMORPG was developped with

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-10 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 9/10/2011 5:35 PM, Laurent wrote: [troll] For a serious web based MMO you'd rather stick to low level and forget about bloated Object Relational Mapping java-like layered kind of frameworks that are made for Rapid Applications Development, not for efficiency. [/troll] I replied to that one

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-10 Thread Laurent
Well PyPy is just an implementation of Python among many others (but limited to version 2.7). It is not a web server. If you want to make PyPy interact with a web server (such as nginx) you have to use a special protocol such as WSGI or Fast-CGI. For best performances you can for instance use

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Laurent laurent.pa...@gmail.com wrote: [troll] For a serious web based MMO you'd rather stick to low level and forget about bloated Object Relational Mapping java-like layered kind of frameworks that are made for Rapid Applications Development, not for

using python in web applications

2011-09-09 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I'm curious if there are some good solutions for using Python in web applications. I'm not feeling particularly masochistic, so I do not want to develop this project in PHP; essentially I'm looking to build a web-based MMO. I know that you can use nginx with Python with servers

Re: using python in web applications

2011-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com writes: I'm curious if there are some good solutions for using Python in web applications. Start with: URL:http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html#frameworks URL:http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks and try your criteria against what you find

Using Python for web applications

2010-06-30 Thread Wyatt Schwartz
Dear Python-List members, Sorry for asking such a simple (or possibly complicated) question, as I am new to Python programming. Anyways, I have read online that many popular websites use Python for some of their web-based applications (for example, Reddit), and that lead me to wonder how

Re: Using Python for web applications

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
Sorry for asking such a simple (or possibly complicated) question, as I am new to Python programming. Anyways, I have read online that many popular websites use Python for some of their web-based applications (for example, Reddit), and that lead me to wonder how is this done? There are

Re: Using Python for web applications

2010-06-30 Thread Zubin Mithra
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Wyatt Schwartz wyattj...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Python-List members, Sorry for asking such a simple (or possibly complicated) question, as I am new to Python programming. Anyways, I have read online that many popular websites use Python for some of their

Re: Using Python for web applications

2010-06-30 Thread Mithrandir
Wyatt Schwartz wyattj...@gmail.com wrote in news:mailman.33.1277921551.1673.python-l...@python.org: Dear Python-List members, Sorry for asking such a simple (or possibly complicated) question, as I am new to Python programming. Anyways, I have read online that many popular websites use