Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

[Luis M. González]

On May 16, 6:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
> dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
>
> Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
> everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
> everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
> clean syntax etc.
>
> Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
> stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
> that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
> behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
> main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
> the bugs in our tools.
>
> Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
> scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
> a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
> used there.
>
> TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
> - probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
> satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
> reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
> something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
> unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
> either, or so it seems.
>
> So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
> python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
> Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
> well'.
>
> And althoughhttp://www.python.org/about/quotes/lists many big names
> and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
> is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
> performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
> example - anybody knows more details about that?
>
> Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
>
> Best Regards,
> Victor.


Reddit.com was built with webpy, and it's amongst the top 1000
websites in volume of traffic.
So if you liked it, go with it...
I believe one of the authors of reddit is also webpy's developer.

Luis