advice needed for simple python web app

[Fred Pacquier]

"Dan Perl" <danperl at rogers.com> said :

> This is exactly the kind of summary that I think should be in a 
> WebProgrammingShootOut (see another one of my postings in this thread)
> but I failed to find such a summary.  Thanks, Brian!  Anyone can add
> to the list? 

I myself am also into (very) simple web apps and hence simple, easy-to-
learn web frameworks.

CherryPy is a very nice kit, still simple enough but already (IMO) 
somewhat on the powerful, batteries-included side for a beginner -- and, 
as you noted, a bit under-documented at the moment.

There are a couple of others that will get you started without too much 
effort (in part because simplicity is one of their design points) and 
without limiting you too much either : Karrigell by Pierre Quentel and 
Snakelets by Irmen de Jong.

They're somewhat similar in scope and concept : it will be mostly a 
matter of which one 'fits your brain' best. Myself I settled on 
Snakelets, not least because it has some of the better docs out there.
 
> BTW, there are other people who seem to have been also confused by the
> wide spectrum of choices for this problem: 

That's an old debate in the Python world, yes. The "one true way to do 
it" motto of the language itself doesn't apply to its web frameworks :)

See the recent "Ruby on Rails" threads for a discussion of whether this 
is good or bad...

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