[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie list?

[Mario Ruggier]

> Folks,
>
> I am a complete newbie to python... just got my first O'Reilly text on 
> what appears to be just what I needed in terms of a programming tool.  
> I've lurked on your list for a few days and see a lot of over-my-head 
> comment.
>
> Is there a newbies list you may recommend?  I have an Apache-based 
> project in mind -- basically a large CGI in Python that I would like 
> to develop, but don't know quite where to start.
>
> I feel like this is a chicken/egg dilemma: I clearly need to know 
> python well to know how to proceed with development, and I need to ask 
> the right questions to learn python without undue frustration. Arrrgh.
>
> Any recommendations are most welcome.  I'm on digest, so if you post 
> here and I don't respond for a few days, it's not an insult.
>
> Thanks
>
> p

If you want large you probably do not want CGI, but any one of several
_substantially_ more functional and and performant frameworks. There are
several in python, and the recent posting, below, on the 
python-announce list,
is actually a very convenient starting point to get some idea of what's 
out there.
However, not all servers/frameworks are covered with equal attention 
(and
note that it's author is also one of the webware authors).

Regards,

	Mario Ruggier

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From: Ian Bicking <ianb@colorstudy.com>
Date: Jeu avr 3, 2003  04:50:46 Europe/Amsterdam
To: python-announce-list@python.org
Subject: Paper online: "Web Framework Shootout"

Since PyCon papers are perhaps best distributed in a DIY fashion, I've
made my paper available at:

   The Web Framework Shootout
   http://colorstudy.com/docs/shootout.html

This paper compares several web application development frameworks
(CherryPy, SkunkWeb, Webware, Zope, Spyce, Albatross, jonpy, Twisted),
with much of the commentary in the form of commented code examples.  I
hope it will help inform the Python community on some of the choices
available in web development.

-- 
Ian Bicking  ianb@colorstudy.com  http://colorstudy.com
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