On 7/1/13 1:00 PM,Phil Mayers <p.mayers(a)imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a newbie to Python, but not programming. However, my problem is
> > replacing an antiquated web-based classroom-attendance oriented
> > software app.
If you are looking at python, you have a lot of choices.
The first choice is which database to use, object-oriented, or relational.
If you choose relational, then django is the mainstream choice.
If you choose object oriented, then you can consider ZODB. It stores a
persistent network of objects. Which leads to either the Zope 3 /
ZTFY.org web framework, or else
pyramid. Pyramid is good for simpler applications, as they get more
complicated, I would recommend ztfy.org. and wiki.ztfy.org
Better yet, just get a complete school application at
schooltool.org
built on top of zope 3, very easy to make any customizations you want,
that is the greatest strength of Zope 3.
Regards
Chris
http://zopache.com
