Python for web ?

[Jay O'Connor]

François Pinard wrote:

>[Jay O'Connor]
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>>>2. If the answer of above is yes, then can we programms with Python in 
>>>both server and client side or either ?
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>I guess yes to both.  For my own usages, I use Python servers where
>Python code is easily put within HTML pages.  If I really wanted to have
>Python executed on the client side browsers, I would likely follow the
>Jython path, as Jython is Python over Java, and some Web browsers are
>already able to run Java.  (I did not really try Jython yet, however.)
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I'd forgotten Jython.


>> First off, for any 
>>such HTML embedded scripting you have to have a server that while parse 
>>and execute the script.
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>If you design carefully, the overhead could be quite negligible, besides
>the cycles burned by the very execution of scripts.  I would not really
>see this as an impediment, in practice.
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I was mostly yhinking availibility, not performance.  If you are using 
an ISP, then any server-side processing has to be enabled by the ISP and 
that may or may not be possible depending on your ISP

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>>More importantly, though, I'm not a big fan of the architecture of
>>having HTML code interspersed with script coding.  I think you'd end
>>up with a better software design with a normal CGI-template approach
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>Indeed.  Templates allow a much nicer separation of the work between
>the Web designers and artists on one side, and programmers on the other
>side.  Some templating systems are heavier than others (for both humans
>and machines), one has to be careful when choosing or designing them.
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Same here.  I do the backend programming and usually give the designer a 
page (See these marks?  Don't touch them, the rest of the page is 
yours)  Works well because I'm *not* a graphices designer and I get much 
better results when I make it work and I give it to a friend to make it 
look good.