Re: Looking for a database. Sugestions?

2005-09-15 Thread Jeff Shell
If it's embedded, is there any reason why it should be SQL? A solid alternative could me MetaKit, which has Python bindings: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/python.html """ Buzzwords - Metakit is an embeddable database which runs on Unix, Windows, Macintosh, and other platforms. It lets you build ap

Re: Django Vs Rails

2005-09-14 Thread Jeff Shell
My opinion, as posted there, was pretty immediate and only going off of surface values. I just saw in Django what I had seen too much of in my own code. I've written similar things in Zope and Formulator that did all sorts of fancy automatic 'admin screen' generation, DBMS CRUD statements. I even a

Re: What is your favorite Python web framework?

2005-07-18 Thread Jeff Shell
Zope 3, far and away. There's great documentation, quite a few load handling options (different types of caching and ZEO to distribute ZODB caches to multiple machines). Zope 3 aggressively favors small cooperating objects (Zope 2 was inheritance heavy, making customization, extension, etc, a big c

Re: Persistent python object and the Web

2005-04-21 Thread Jeff Shell
The ZODB (Zope's object database, which can be downloaded and installed separately from Zope) and Durus (part of the Quixote family, I believe) are both high quality persistent Python object stores that are used heavily for web sites. I've never used the ZODB outside of Zope, and haven't used Duru