ActivePython/IIS Request Concurrency

[Robert Brewer]

Erik Rose wrote:
> Robert Brewer wrote:
> 
> > Insanity is in the mind's eye of the beholder. ;) All I can 
> tell you is
> > that I don't have that problem. But I'm not using 
> ActivePython, just 
> > IIS
> > + pywin32. My first thought was that the "application protection"
> > setting in IIS (process isolation, essentially) might be 
> the culprit,
> > but I tried all three settings without any difficulties on your 
> > script. :(
> 
> :(? More like :-D! I'm not particularly in love with ActivePython; 
> rather, I thought it was the only solution for ASP-embedded Python. 
> Reading a little about pywin32, I see this allusion in one of its 
> source distributions' readmes (pywin32-202/com/win32com/readme.htm):
> 
> "Python continues to work fine as an Active Scripting Engine in all 
> other applications, including Windows Scripting Host, and ASP."
> 
> My stars! Could it be that pywin32 is sufficient to allow Python as a 
> full-fledged ASP language? Is this how you're using it, i.e. not as a 
> CGI or anything? If it works for you, I'm perfectly happy (ecstatic, 
> actually) to match my setup to yours.

It's sufficient. :) Check out
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/082201-1.shtml for a good intro to
using pywin32 for ASP.

FWIW, I don't use ASP for anything more than an envelope for "real"
Python scripts. The extent of my Python-in-ASP looks like:

<%@Language=Python%>
<%
from cation.html.uiasp import UserInterfaceASP
import mcontrol

ui = UserInterfaceASP(mcontrol.application)
ui.sandbox = mcontrol.arena.new_sandbox()
ui.request(Request, Response)
ui.sandbox.flush_all()
%>

All the heavy lifting is done by my "cation" web framework. You can do
the same with almost any Python web framework, I'd bet. Such a scheme
can keep you from tearing your hair out trying to mix Python indentation
rules with HTML's lack of such.


Robert Brewer
MIS
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