On Sunday, 6 October 2013 15:35:33 UTC+11, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > Saying you want to use cgi with Python is a little like saying you want to > use a bicycle with a jet engine. >
Actually, that sounds like fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByemtRt_CP0 Perhaps like using a car powered by a horse. > I do not think anybody uses CGI any more ( > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1162029/what-are-cgi-scripts-used-for-these-days > ) > > I assume you are interested in building web applications using Python. > Than you have come in the right place. :-) > web2py is a tool to do exactly that. > > web2py packages: > - a web server (but can work with any other web server: Apache, Nginx, > Cherokee, Lightpd, Gunicorn, Tornado, etc.) > - a SQL database (but can work with many other databases: Oracle, MSSQL, > MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) > - a web based IDE (but can work with other IDEs: Wingware, Eclipse, > PyCharm, Emacs) > - the Python interpreter (but you can use your own Python interpreter: > CPython, PyPy, 2.5,2.6,2.7) > - a lots of modules and utilities to build web applications, expose the > database on the web, create forms, login/logout/registration, manage users' > access, accept credit card payments, send emails, generate PDF documents, > etc. > > web2py is designed to make web development secure and simple. If you use > web2py you do not need anything else. > web2py can interface with old legacy web servers using CGI but nobody uses > this any more. web2py can interface with modern web servers using SCGI, > fastCGI and WSGI. Yet if you use the provided web server, you do not need > to know these protocols. > > > Massimo > > > > > > > On Saturday, 5 October 2013 06:24:34 UTC-5, Subhash kumar wrote: >> >> please someone tell me what is web2py ..?? >> is it a web server ?? >> I want to use cgi with python .. >> thanks >> :) >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
