[python-uk] <?python ...?>

[Doug Winter]

Malte Beckmann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Just wrote my first 30 odd python scripts and loving this language.
> 
> But do, however, have a burning question on my mind.
> 
> Why can I not just do <?python ... ?> in my webpages like I can do with
> PHP?

I believe mod_python does support this style of programming:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2004/02/26/python_server_pages.html

Although I've not tried it, and some of the links google suggested were
quite dead.

Generally I think embedding bits of code in a tag soup is generally
regarded as a pretty poor way of building anything other than the most
trivial applications.

I suggest you take a look at Django:

http://www.djangoproject.com/

This gives you everything you'd get with the page-embedded style, but
gives allows you to do Real Programming too.

Cheers,

Doug.

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