Re: Questions about Django suitability

2010-02-09 Thread Dasleah
Thanks for all your suggestions - looking over JSON it seems a much more straightforward and lightweight thing to deal with than XML, especially since it's so much closer to straight Python dictionaries (which I'm more than used to). To be honest, I had no real love of XML, but it seemed to be the

Re: Questions about Django suitability

2010-02-09 Thread Shawn Milochik
You could do this in Django. Creating and editing the XML in JavaScript sounds like masochism. Why not just use Python? I agree with Brice's comment -- can you make things easier on yourself and use JSON instead of XML? Also, if you can use JSON, you might have a natural fit using MongoDB, which

Re: Questions about Django suitability

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
First you should consider JSON instead of xml: - Django can serialize every object in json - JSon is an object in javascript. so it should be easier to deal with data this way. 2010/2/9 Dasleah : > Hey all, > > Long-ago webhead here who hasn't touched much of anything since > Javascript was a

Questions about Django suitability

2010-02-09 Thread Dasleah
Hey all, Long-ago webhead here who hasn't touched much of anything since Javascript was a dirty word and PHP was the be-all and end-all (but I've managed a bit of Python experience) I just have a few questions about whether or not Django was right for a project I'm thinking of and hopefully gettin