[Tutor] building a website with python

[Amit Saha]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Benjamin Fishbein
> <bfishbein79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I learned Python this past year (with help from many of you) and wrote many programs for my small business. Now I want to build a website. I acquired the domain name through godaddy.com (bookchicken.com) but have not found hosting yet.
>> I learned html, css, and javascript via codeacademy.org, but have never built a website.
>> I would like to build it with Python, and was wondering if you could give me some pointers about what I need to learn first: Django is the thing to use? And do I need specific hosting to use python or are all hosts basically the same.
>
> Django is great, but like others have suggested, so called "micro"
> frameworks may be a good start. I personally would suggest Flask [1].
> The documentation is extensive and excellent.
>
>
> [1] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/

And, I will add Frozen-Flask (http://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/),
which basically gives you a set of static files, which you can just
dump on any host with no "special" features. I haven't tried it
myself, though.

-Amit.


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