[Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

[Spencer Parker]

You might also want to look at Pylons...its another excellent web framework
built for Python.  The community around it, I feel, is better than Django.
People are pretty willing to answer any and all questions you have.  It
gives more control to the developer as oppiosed to Django.  I just switched
from Django to Pylons...so far it fits me better.  Not for everyone...ya
know...

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:43 AM, 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
>
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