Could a single web framework popularize Python?

[ted]

Here's something I found:
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/20030725.html#125136

Talks about finding a good web framework. Here's an excerpt:

"So in my humble opinion, it would be great if a corporate entity - bigger
and more influential than Zope - started pushing Python a bit more.
Documentation, standards, application server reference implementations, etc.
In other words, a bit more like Java. There's got to be a middle ground
between tight corporate control and open source free-for-all. Corporate
sponsership (say by IBM or even Intel or some company of that stature) would
also give a boost to its use throughout the rest of the corporate world and
maybe give a boost to the numbers of jobs looking for Python skills. The
Python people who are happy with the status quo will probably think I'm
nuts, and that's fine. I'm writing this for the teeming hoards of Java
programmers looking around for something a bit funner (and more productive)
to use who are going to run smack into the same issues I've run into."




"Dave Harrison" <dave at nullcube.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1065496032.26719.python-list at python.org...
> > Because everyone has made their own, and no one can agree on what a
> > dominant web framework might be.  Zope *was* that framework, with
> > dominant mindshare, but it didn't keep other people from making other
> > frameworks.
> >
> > There's already a ton of frameworks, but I think I saw two brand new
> > ones on PyPI this last week.  Crazy.
>
> hehehe.... my opinion is that development in python is fun, I doubt any
> on this list would really disagree with me on that point ;-)
>
> which ultimately means people are much more likely to say, "oh we need a
> system that does X, sure, we can write that ourselves !" while chuckling
> and rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect ;-)
>
> so we end up with a huge range of tools for the same kinds of things.
>
> vive la python !! ;-) *laughs*
>