Would Python be suitable for a sports statistics website?
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Fri Jan 31 09:55:46 EST 2014
In article <1a7a822f-569b-4ead-9421-f1dcc5d4656e at googlegroups.com>,
britt.jonathan89 at gmail.com wrote:
> I have been assigned by an internship with my university's athletic
> department, to create a statistics website to be used by sports media during
> games. What this means is that the statistics are generated by a stats
> computer into an XML file and I am wanting to parse this XML file and place
> it on the web quickly. Not necessarily in real-time but in a matter of a
> couple of seconds. I'd like to make a clean, simple website to start off with
> that displays these statistics.
>
> I've been playing around with Javascript and jQuery and as a beginning
> programmer have really been in over my head. What I want to do is start
> completely over and actually try to learn a language before diving in.
My first thought is that this is a really ambitious project for a
beginning programmer.
My second thought is that maybe you want to bypass most of the work by
having a mostly static site (which you can build with any number of
Content Management Systems, even something like WordPress). Then, have
a process which takes the XML, parses it (you would use Python's lxml
library), and produces a HTML file containing the formatted scores. You
could then include you HTML in the static site by way of an iframe, or
something like that.
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