walterbyrd wrote: > Way back when, I got a lot of training and experience in highly > structued software development. These days, I dabble with > web-development, but I may become more serious. > > I consider php to be an abombination, the backward compatibility issues > alone are reason enough to make me hate it. Rail looks promising, but > it's difficult to find inexpensive hosting that supports rails. > > I like python much better, but I'm not certain it's as well suited for > web developement.
It is. Much more than PHP. The problem then is: which solution/framework. And there quite a few Python web developpment solutions... > I'm not sure how th e apache module thing works. It exposes most of the Apache API to Python, and provides hooks to take control over request processing. > I am > using shared hosting, they provide python, but I'm not sure how limited > I'll be. You can bet it'll be plain old cgi - possibly with an outdated Pyton version. > Ideally, I would like to be able to develop a database driven web-app, > in much the same manner as I could develop an ms-access app. As much as > I dislike msft, I have to admit, an ms-access app can be put together > quickly, without any steep learning curve. > > I've been looking at python web frameworks, and I'm not sure what to > think. It seems like these frameworks would allow me to do a lot of > work, with a small amount of code, but the learning curve seems very > steep. Which frameworks have you looked at ? > I wouldn't even mind the steep learning curves, so much, except, it > seems to me that anything developed with one framework, would not work > with another. heck, this is true of all frameworks ever (web or not, Python or not). > So if I changed my mind about which framework, I'd have > to start all over again - re-learning everything, re-writing > everything. Of course, everybody says their framework is the best. But > how can I know for sure? Trying them ? > I don't have time to try them all. Then only try the ones that *may* fit your needs !-) -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list