biofob wrote: > I am new to python and only have read the Byte of Python ebook, but want to > move to the web. I am tired of being a CMS tweaker and after I tried python, > ruby and php, the python language makes more sense (if that makes any "sense" > for the real programmers). I heard a lot of good things about Django, > Pyramid, etc, but I dont want to pick the most used or the one with the most > magic. Instead I was thinking about one that could "teach" me python along > the way. My plan is to rebuild my portfolio using python and a framework and > also benefit my python learning along the way.
Warning: I'm a mere dabbler in web frameworks. If by rebuilding your portfolio you mean to position yourself for a job, then popularity counts a lot. As measured by job openings, Django is king. It's a fine framework and reasonably Pythonic. The Django community is large and sophisticated and helpful They have there own app download system, which I haven't used but is supposed to work really well. Django has emphasized backwards compatibility with the down-side that, last I heard, there was no plan to move to Python 3. Your disinterest in "magic" plays against Web2Py. Were the goal to go from squat to professional quality web site quickly and easily, Web2Py would be it. Web2Py does a load of complex and interesting stuff behind the scenes. Among web frameworks, it rocks like none other at teaching and using web best-practices, at the cost of hiding or skirting core Python practices. Professor Massimo DiPierro fist built Web2Py for his own particular problem: teaching web programming in one semester. Without it, his students spent so much time on the tools that his course could not cover the essential topics. Turbo-Gears has a lot going for it, largely by adoption. It demands more elbow-grease than Django or Web2Py, but the extra effort has benefits beyond the framework. In particular, Turbo-Gears has adopted SQLAlchemy, which is significantly more demanding and vastly more powerful than the purpose-built automatic table-generators of Django and Web2Py. Then there are the less than full-stack frameworks and libraries. But this post is probably too long already. -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
