> Subject: > [Tutor] web development > From: > Don Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:13:30 -0400 > To: > tutor@python.org > > To: > tutor@python.org > > > Earlier this month, Kent posted that Jython and Velocity are a good way > to develop dynamic web sites. After a little searching, it seems that > there are quite a few options for web development in Python (perhaps too > many?). So, rather than ask for recommendations of which one to use, > what I would really like to know are how people decided to use any > particular framework. > > Thanks! > Don > > P.S. As an aside, does anyone have any experience with django? (I really > like the name since I am fond of django reinhardt, the jazz guitarist.) >
I've looked at a few of the web development frameworks for Python. I'm thinking I'm going with CherryPy on my next project. Reading the docs, it seems to click with me. Mapping URLs directly to python functions seems pretty simple and flexible. The POST and GET parameters just show up as arguments to your functions. You can even decide weather or not you want to expose the function or not. You can use any HTML templating toolkit you want with it. I'm still deciding on the templating toolkit to use. Here's my take on some of the other frameworks.... Zope It seems too big for my purposes. If your web apps are going to be high volume, Zope is probably the answer. Quixote It seems a little weird and complex to me. I may look at it again someday. Django Uses the MVC philosophy, and appears to build a directory structure to facilitate that philosophy. I'm not sure I want to go there yet in that you need to work its way and not your way. I've heard that it's very similar to Ruby on Rails. Nevow If I recall, it extracted woven from the Twisted Framework so that it could work on it's own. Kind of reminded me of Quixote. There are many others that I passed on for various reasons. For me, if it looked like a steep learning curve, then I thought I'd be better off with something else. I also wanted something that's been around for a while(stable) with a good size community to help if I got stuck. It had to be fairly easy to install and configure. I didn't want to spend all my time getting it up and running on a development server. Then having problems when it's time to install on a production server or other servers at different locations. Mike _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
