[Tutor] Why not to use include?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/6/9 Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I must learn about these things, I've discovered, in this order:
>
> I suggest you look at Django, it helps with most of this. Probably
> TurboGears does also but I'm not familiar with it.
>
>> 1) How to use Python as an apache module, not as cgi. Each page, at
>> least to the outside world, must have an .html extension.
>
> No problem, your URLs can look however you like.
>
>> 2) I must learn about classes, and how to include classes in specific pages.
>
> This sounds like general programming stuff but if you are talking
> about your header includes, Django template inheritance provides a
> good way to include boilerplate on each page.
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/templates/#template-inheritance
>
>> 3) How to access GET, POST, and environmental values in Python. By
>> environmental values I mean the requesting page's IP address, UA
>
> In the Django request:
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/request_response/#attributes
>
>> details such as preferred language and charset (which I use to serve
>> the homepage in one of two languages), the query string, etc.
>
> Also in the request, if I understand correctly.
>
>> 4) How to access and work with MySQL. I am familiar with SQL, it is
>> just the python integration I need to learn (how to send a query, how
>> to parse the reply).
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/
>
>> 5) How to work with cookies in Python.
>
> Not sure why you need this but Django has support for cookie-based
> authentication.
>
>> 6) How to send mail with Python and sendmail.
>
> http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/mail.py
>
>> 7) How to manipulate images with Python. From what I understand this
>> is _not_ possible, so I may have to stick with php on this one.
>
> See Python Imaging Library
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm
>
> Kent
>

You have me very convinced, Kent, and you've pointed me to some very
helpful docs. I think that I will use django, as it seems to be
designed for what I intend to do. I though up until now that _python_
is similar to php, but it seems that django with python is what is
similar to php. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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