<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span>>Folks,</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span>>I need some advice on a python web & database framework to use...?</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace; RIGHT: auto" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span>>I have handcrafted a sqllite3 python script, that is a basic web application, interfacing with a >sqlite3 database...</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span><BR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv549008479Apple-style-span face=monospace>>- Ben</FONT><BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></DIV></SPAN>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It depends on whether you want to develop desktop apps or browser-based apps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I will suggest 2 frameworks with their urls.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I will not enumerate the features here, because their websites contain loads of advocacy about them.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For desktop apps, my STRONG advise to you is DABO.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://dabodev.com/">http://dabodev.com/</A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It is developed by the experts in data-centric business apps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It contains the features which I haven't seen in any other framework except MS VFP & cursor adapter (if at all you are familiar with them).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>For browser based apps, I found web2py very simple yet powerful.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://web2py.com/">http://web2py.com/</A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It requires no installation (not even python).</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Everything works out of the box.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(51,153,102); FONT-SIZE: 12pt" class=ms__id2899><FONT color=#000000 size=2>No dependencies.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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