I need to make a small, relatively low-traffic site that users can
create accounts on and log into. Scripts must run as cgi (no
mod_python or FastCGI is available). Can anyone recommend a small and
simple web framework for Python, maybe similar to Perl's
CGI::Application?
Or would it just be better to roll my own?
What are you looking for in your framework? Python comes with
its own CGI module[1]. For the most basic of sites, this works
nicely.
However, if you want to be able to easily slide into a bigger
environment, I've been pleased with WebStack[2] for my
lightweight needs. It makes light work of transitioning from CGI
to other stacks such as mod_python, Twisted, WSGI, etc.
Backed with a simple sqlite DB, and some simple HTML/Python
templating, just using dict-expansion:
# template.html contains content like
# <p><b>field1</b> = %(field1)s</p>
template = file('template.html').read()
:
:
params = {
"field1": "value1",
"field2": "value2",
}
:
:
return template % params
Just set up the values in the params-dict, and use it to display
your template.
-tkc
[1]
http://docs.python.org/library/cgi.html
[2]
http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html
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