[Tutor] Re: [opinions?] Web development... (kind of long)

[Lance E Sloan]

dman wrote:
> Then, of course, there are plain CGI scripts if you don't like any of
> the existing frameworks.

I'll second that suggestion!

I'm fairly new to Python, I've only been using it for about four
months.  I write CGIs for other departments around the Univ. of
Michigan.  I've had a very good first experience with Python when my
boss assigned me to a project to write scheduling CGIs for our
hospital.  The doctor in charge requested that it be done in Python and
even agreed to spend more time and money for that feature.  I started
with some trepidation, but I can now say that Python is my language of
choice.

My Python CGI development kit is pretty simple.  I use a fairly recent
verson of Python (v2.0), DCOracle module, DocumentTemplate module
(ripped from Zope), and vi.  It beats the pants off of using a similar
kit I assembled for development with Perl.

I probably should have jumped right into using Zope entirely, but I
will have to work my way up to that.  In addition to my own comfort of
writing CGIs for a webserver and having trouble making myself develop
object orientedly, I didn't get much support from our webmasters to
install Zope on their servers.  I'm working on it.

My favorite part of this kit has to be DocumentTemplate.  It's very
powerful, similar in some ways to PyHTML, according to dman's
description.

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Lance E Sloan
Web Services, Univ. of Michigan: Full-service Web and database design,
development, and hosting.  Specializing in Python & Perl CGIs.
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