mod python confusion

[David Fraser]

Kylotan wrote:
> "Robert Brewer" <fumanchu at amor.org> wrote in message
> news:<mailman.410.1085775210.6949.python-list at python.org>...
> 
> 
>>Given that webserver advocacy comes and goes, I always recommend
>>abstracting the webserver interface, so rewrites like the one you're
>>talking about hurt less:
>>
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/225299
> 
> 
> Hi Robert. You've recommended this recipe to me in the past when I asked
> a similar question on this newsgroup. However, I must admit that I 
> really don't understand 90% of it, since there are so many layers of 
> abstraction and it spans several classes - and indeed, 2 recipes! 
> Surely there has to be something simpler? I read somewhere today that 
> mod_python made Python as simple to use for web apps as PHP etc, but if
> this is any indication of the amount of code you need to simply redirect
> execution to separate places based on the URI, then I'd have to disagree
> with that!
> 
Actually redirecting execution to separate places based on the URI is 
fairly easy in mod_python, I suspect you may want to use something like 
publisher