On 10/27/2013 06:12 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know who is using web.py, what they like about it and
what features they wish to have. If you are using web.py for any of
your projects, please let me know.
I am using web.py to make a webapp to track stuff that members in a club
I belong to do to benefit the club. Once you take into account members,
their chapters, and the people that verify things, and many other
things, it's more complicated than you might think!
Let me start with myself.
I use web.py for openlibrary.org <http://openlibrary.org>. Its been
running from quite some time and I usually don't add ton of new
features except some minor changes once in a while.
My wishlist:
It is quite some time since I've built any new applications using
web.py, but wish web.py had the following:
* nice documentation. it would be nice to have sphinx documentation
for web.py
Oh please, dear God in Heaven yes. Admittedly I may be spoiled by the
general python and C/C++ documentation, but web.py documentation is
sorely lacking. It is plenty adequate to getting someone started;
that's actually something I really like. But when you need to look up a
syntax, it just....well, sucks, if I'm being honest. Maybe I'm
approaching it wrong, and I'm still learning, but usually when I am
having trouble matching up different parts of my code, I am sticking in
lots of "print type(...)" statements to see what exactly I'm working
with. I would much rather be able to just look that stuff up. And in
general, just more fleshed-out documentation would be an amazing help;
not to mention it would make it easier for me to sell others on it!
* a way to write web.py extensions so that it is easier to use
third-party libraries along with web.py
What about you?
Ole mentioned a better forms library, and I heartily agree. Templator
has been pretty straightforward for me, but I'm not doing anything
especially complicated with it. One small feature I would love to have,
so much so that I implemented it myself, is a bit more flexibility on
options in select elements. I use a JS library that updates a select's
options when you select from another one (so that you can eg select make
of car, and the next select gets populated with all models of that make).
Those are the big things, but other than that, I absolutely love the
simplicity and low overhead in this framework! It's my first that I
have really dived in to use, after being terrified by the
seeming-to-a-beginner opacity of Django. Great work overall, let's make
Aaron proud!
Anand
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