Web programming ...

[Sarah Tanembaum]

Thanks Moxley. I too just finish with a very small project with PHP, Family
Photo Album.

Where can I find any good example of Python web programming  - small,
concise and easy to follow, to re-write my PHP apps in Python.

I'm using MySQL to store the photos information.

Thanks

"Moxley Stratton" <moxley at moxleydata.com> wrote in message
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> Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> > Is python good for creating Web application? I do like the OOness of
Python,
> > as a newbie, I'm trying to find out if Python has all its necessary
> > modules/utilities for Web programming just as extensive as, say, PHP or
> > Ruby(some say that Ruby is not ready for this sort of application and is
not
> > yet mature as Perl, Python, and PHP - is it true?).
> >
> >
> >
>
> PHP is a more straight-forward web development language for a newbie
> because it has been developed and marketed for the web developer in mind.
>
> However, this is how I see the difference: PHP provides only one
> built-in basic approach to web application development: a web server
> module (or CGI) plus a page template model, similar to asp and jsp, plus
> the PHP language. Python doesn't provide any web application development
> model built-in. You either develop Python web applications as CGI
> scripts-- which isn't very popular because of performance issues-- or
> you work with a web application model that somebody has developed.
> Because Python doesn't enforce any particular web development model,
> developers are free to take any approach that has been developed, or
> they may develop their own model. This creates the potential for more
> sophisticated applications, but it almost always makes it more difficult
> than PHP to create small ones. It also means that as a newbie, you have
> to spend the time to pick a model to start with.
>
> Another thing I'd like to say about the PHP model is that it is very
> mature and well-known.
>
> I'm a PHP developer who has been tinkering around with Python for some
> time now. I've been researching Webware as a candidate for my primary
> Python web development model.
>
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> Moxley Stratton