Python / web

[Larry Bates]

IMHO it all depends on the complexity required by the final product that
you are attempting to create.  For complex projects, it is hard to beat
Zope/Plone.  They have lots of built in things that you don't have to
write and are nearly infinitely extensible.  We recently chose Zope for
a project and have been very happy with the outcome.  With Zope it was
easy to design an AJAX API (connect via XMLRPC) and provide a WebDAV
interface to our applications which would have been extremely hard with
a lighter weight application engine.  The learning curve has been steep,
but no more steep than it would be to do in WebLogic or WebSphere.  With
flexibility comes complexity.  For less complex needs there are other
more lightweight things like CherryPy.

Hope info helps.
Larry Bates

Robert wrote:
> Hi,
> I know general Python pretty well and interested in using Python for a
> web project. It will have the standard display, user input, fields,
> look-ups, reports, database routines, etc..... Been looking though the
> Python web docs. and seeing stuff like mod_python, CGI, PSP, CherryPy,
> etc...,  Also a fair amount of googling. I'll say there's a large amount
> of technology to pick from.  Rather than spend time going down  the
> wrong road, can I get some feedback as directions from you folks that's
> "been there, done that."
> 
> thanks a bunch.
> Robert