Pimping the 'cgi' module

[robert]

Harry George wrote:
> When I came from Perl, I too missed perl-isms and specifically CGI.pm, so wrote my own:
> http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html
> http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/pyperlish/doc/manual.html
> http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/cgipm/doc/index.html
> 
> Others on this newsgroup said I'd be better off just doing it in raw
> python.  After a while, I realized that was true.  You do
> triple-quoted templates with normal python idioms.  Throw in
> some persistence mechanisms to deal with maintaining state across
> transactions, and you are in business.
> 
> Since then I've looked at Zope, Plone, TurboGears, Django, and (for
> standalone apps) Dabo.  TurboGears is mostly a set of recommendations
> on what 3rd party packages to use, with a wee bit of glueware.  So far
> nothing feels as simple as just doing it in python.


Thats the fragmented journey, almost any web programmer has to go when coming to python. A clear standard, even a clear intro, for simple tasks,  like doing state mng, db, error handling, etc. is not there on an easy path.

For a level above cgi, what do you think about cherrypy ?  http://docs.cherrypy.org/

Robert