[Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

[Don Jennings]

Oops, I meant to say that django "has EXCELLENT documentation"

Take care,
Don

On 11/25/08, Don Jennings <dfjennings at gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome! I suggest you take a look at django [1]. You'll find that it
> has documentation [2] and an active developer community [3]. Of
> course, for your questions about learning python, you've already found
> a very helpful community : >)
>
> Take care,
> Don
>
> [1]  http://www.djangoproject.com/
> [2] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
> [3] http://www.djangoproject.com/community/
>
> On 11/25/08, Jason DeBord <jasdebord at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> This is my first message on the mailing list. I am excited to get started
>> developing content / backend for the web with Python.
>>
>> I have a background in PHP, but am convinced that Python is a better, more
>> powerful language.
>>
>> I am on a Windows XP machine and I have been using XAMPP for server, php,
>> mysql...
>>
>> I installed Python 2.5 and mod_python successfully. I can serve pages with
>> .py extension to http://localhost .
>>
>> The following for example:
>>
>> from mod_python import apache
>>
>> def handler(req):
>>     req.write("Hello World!")
>>     return apache.OK
>>
>> Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit
>> different compared to what I am used to.
>>
>> So, my question, would you all please point me to some introductory
>> resources, tutorials, books, that focus on Python programming for the web?
>> I
>> am eventually going to interface with some web services, notably Amazon
>> Web
>> Services. Also, I'd like to write some server side scripts to serve as a
>> backend to some Adobe AIR apps.
>>
>> Any and all advice is extremely appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for your time!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>