Web application development in Python?

[Stephan Diehl]

Hans Nowak wrote:

My experience is with Webware...

> 
> Howdy y'all,
> 
> For work, we're going to need a Python web application framework.  It
> seems there are quite a few out there, e.g. Albatross, Quixote, Webware,
> SkunkWeb,
> etc.  All of these could be potential candidates.
> 
> However, there is a slight problem.  The eventual app will run on Linux,
> but it
> will have to be developed on Windows.  Most of the programs above seem to
> be
> Linux- (or more specifically, Apache-) oriented.  Also, if possible, we'd
> rather avoid CGI, because of the overhead it incurs.  (For testing and
> developing it's fine, but not when we actually run the app "live".)

Webware on Windows definatelly runs just fine.

> 
> Zope comes to mind, but I wonder if that would be overkill... we don't
> want to develop a really complex app, so something simple and light-weight
> will do.
> 
> Also, we don't want to reinvent the wheel.  Creating a minimal web app
> with CGI
> gets you a long way, but we want to (re)use existing code if possible.  I
> have only limited experience with web programming (some ASP/VBScript, done
> in the dark days of my past). So I am looking for advice from someone with
> more experience in this.

You might want to check out a combination of Cheetah and Webware as this 
let's you separate Code and HTML quite nicely.

> 
> (By the way, ASP had sessions; are there Python web app systems that
> provide a similar mechanism?)

I think all of the above mentioned frameworks offer sessions.

> 
> Thanks,
> 

Stephan