[Tutor] Python / CGI

[Eric Brunson]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Eric Brunson wrote:
>   
>> Michael Connors wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>> If you have your own server to run it on, I think it would make sense 
>>> to use one of the Python web frameworks that are out there. I used 
>>> cherrypy for my first web-based python project and I found it very 
>>> easy to learn and develop in quickly.
>>>       
>> That's debatable.  I find the frameworks to be overly complicated and 
>> obfuscated.  They're great when you're going through the tutorials, but 
>> try to do something "outside the box" and I find myself digging through 
>> documentation for longer than it would take me to write it from scratch.
>>     
>
> Hmm. As my boss likes to say, "Reasonable people may disagree." I have 
> been developing with Django for about six months now and I love it. Much 
> of what I have wanted to do is directly supported and easy in Django; 
> sometimes I have to push at it but only a few times have I really felt 
> like I was trying to make it do something it really didn't want to do. I 
> find both the documentation and code informative and easy to read.
>   

I'll admit, though I looked at it briefly, Django was not one of the 
frameworks I spent much time on (didn't care for the templating style).  
I do most of my web development to run under mod_python and I've 
developed my own libraries to do what I need to do the way I think it 
should be done.  :-)