Re: Looking to move to Django, is it right for me?

2007-01-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 05-Jan-07, at 8:42 AM, Brian Beck wrote: * Database access. You can still use Python's much lower-level DB-API to play with the database, and you can still make it look nice to use. Check out the raw SQL query in this Custom Managers example: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model

Re: Looking to move to Django, is it right for me?

2007-01-04 Thread Brian Beck
A lot of time has been spent on making Django not-too-magical while keeping the rapid development time. I've found that it rarely does too much automatic stuff behind my back. Just a couple examples of high-level stuff that isn't too-high-for-your-own-good: * Database access. You can still use

Re: Looking to move to Django, is it right for me?

2007-01-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 05-Jan-07, at 8:17 AM, Mojave wrote: The only thing I'm concerned with is that the tutorials I've read about Django show it off as almost too easy and automatic. While I will welcome the ability to quickly get a site up and running, I also like to tinker. Is Django something that will giv

Looking to move to Django, is it right for me?

2007-01-04 Thread Mojave
I'm looking to move away from my Perl cgi background and into something more powerful, cleaner and standard. Django and Ruby on Rails both look interesting. The only thing I'm concerned with is that the tutorials I've read about Django show it off as almost too easy and automatic. While I will w