[Baypiggies] AJAX for Python

[Ben Bangert]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:16 AM, Keith Dart wrote:

> I have been reading-up on the AJAX technique for web/browser
> applications. The latest DDJ has a good article on it
> <http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9948/ddj0602c/0602c.html>. I was  
> looking
> a nice Java implementation of it called DWR
> <http://getahead.ltd.uk/ajax>. Now, being the Pythonista that I am I
> was wondering if anyone knows of a Python implementation of AJAX?  
> Anyone have any experience working with one?

AJAX is a hot name for some rather basic technology, almost none of  
which is too dependent on any particular server-side technology. This  
makes the question of Python implementation not totally applicable.  
The main thing that helps with AJAX though is when a web framework  
has some way of making it easier to build webapps using AJAX features.

Whether this means packaging a Javascript library and adding some  
webapp enhancements that return JSON (as TurboGears does), or having  
a bunch of helper functions that do common Javascript operations  
reducing the need to learn much Javascript at all (like my port of  
the Rails helpers to Python, called RailsHelpers).

Current Python web frameworks that make AJAX fairly easy, and the  
Javascript lib they use+Python help:
- Aquarium
- Myghty (Custom Javascript)
- TurboGears (MochiKit, JSON)
- Pylons (Prototype/Scriptaculous, RailsHelpers)

I'm sure more of the many Python web frameworks also have some added  
convenience methods for AJAX as well, these are mainly the ones I'm  
aware of. :)

Hope that helps,
Ben