Mounting Python
How do you work with Python and web development? Do you use quixote, mod_python, normal CGI, Zope or something I’ve never heard of? Why do you use that instead of something else?
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Martin:
Check out CherryPy at www.cherrypy.org. Take with a healthy dose of Cheetah (www.cheetahtemplate.org) and SQLObject (www.sqlobject.org).
Martin
Ben Hutchings:
I’ve used CGI so far, because that’s what I know, but I haven’t done anything significant with it and don’t really fancy trying to roll my own session management.
Phillip Pearson:
For topicexchange.com, I use SCGI (with scgi-cgi) but without Quixote. Requests come in to a hacked up scgi_server.py, which fakes up a CGI environment for the rest of the Topic Exchange code.
I did it this way because the code used to be all executed via CGI, but wasn’t coping well with the traffic.
Tim Parkin:
We use Python for almost everything we do now and have settled on a web framework that really gives flexibility with ability to use the full power of Python for web templating. We use Nevow as the web delivery part and Twisted as a web server (sometimes through apache, sometimes directly). We’ve recently launched the Rugby Superleague site completely developed with Nevow and Twisted and I have to say it’s been pretty cool. Although Nevow is still 0.3 release, it’s definitley production capable and is getting more and more powerful all the time. We’re currently working on getting the forms handling ability so that it can work on any style of form you wish (the formless module just works to expose single objects, ‘naked object’ style). It takes a little more getting into than some templating frameworks and could definitely do with more documentation and better error handling but I’ve looked long and hard and not seen anything better. If you want to see some sample code, just shout. Good luck with Python, whatever framework you decide on, it’s a great language.