On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:06:58 -0400, Ram Peters <rampeters@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to handle reporting part of my app with Twisted and rest will be handled with Django. I have Django setup on mod_python. There is some mention of "I want a container for my WSGI application" in TwistedMatrix. Does it mean twisted just handle the request and forward to some other framework? Does TwistedMatrix support mod_python? Can I use twisted with django models and django templating system?
There is some experimental support for using Twisted as a WSGI container. Zope is using it, with some success as far as I am aware. If you use WSGI, however, you lose pretty much all the Twisted request processing features. It is pretty unlikely that Twisted will work inside mod_python, and there wouldn't be any reason to use it there anyway, since you already have an HTTP server. I haven't used Django so I can't say whether or not it will work well in a Twisted server. If it performs blocking operations (for example, to talk to a database), then it probably won't work very well. Jean-Paul