Web programming ...

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Mittwoch, 5. Mai 2004 17:49 schrieb Sarah Tanembaum:
> 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?).

If you're interested in CherryPy, you might as well have a look at CheesyPy 
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/CheesyPy). Somewhat similar to CherryPy, but 
different (and IMHO cleaner, but who am I to say? I developed it ;)) 
implementation of the OO-framework on top of the base Web-Server.

CheesyPy is in no way finished yet (not even documented well enough, but 
browse the source luke!), but the lower-level code which is demonstrated in a 
simple sample application at the root of the package works out of the box 
already.

The main difference between CherryPy and CheesyPy is the fact that CheesyPy 
doesn't use a precompiler, but rather __metaclass__es to pull in all classes 
which are to be displayed and as thus doesn't feature embedding HTML-code in 
a file, but rather (a so far incomplete) HTMLgen-like html generation, 
features builtin session handling without use of cookies, and allows you to 
define Plugins for web-pages which can be easily plugged into a class. These 
plugins may define additional functionality (such as the included example 
Config plugin, which reads a configuration file and offers access to it 
through the class instance). The web-server supports Keep-Alive and verbose 
error output on internal server errors.

HTH!

Heiko.