On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00:17 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>Certainly there are Python equivalents (mod_python, mod_wsgi, etc.)
>which can run in effectively the same way as mod_php, and they could be
>configured to run an fcgi frontend script, I presume. There's always a
>certain confusion here becaus
On 26/10/2012 10:58, Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:24:16 +0100, Tim Golden
> wrote:
>>> But actually, I didn't mean one-shot scripts, where the Python
>>> interpreter + script must be loaded each time, but rather: If I leave
>>> a Python running in an endless loop, why not just use either
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:24:16 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>> But actually, I didn't mean one-shot scripts, where the Python
>> interpreter + script must be loaded each time, but rather: If I leave
>> a Python running in an endless loop, why not just use either CGI or
>> some other basic way to call th
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:53:11 -0400, David Hutto
wrote:
>>> OTOH, Python web scripts can be written as long-running scripts: In
>>> this case, what is the added-value of using FastCGI? Why can't the
>>> web server simply call the Python script directly, just like CGI?
>
>The server should call a th
On 25/10/2012 13:40, Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:03:14 +0100, Tim Golden
> wrote:
>> (Your question is a little confused at the end. I'm choosing to
>> understand: why can't we just run Python one-shot, like CGI? The likely
>> alternative meaning is: why can't the incoming request be ro
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 25/10/2012 12:45, Gilles wrote:
>> I'd like to check something about running Python web applications.
>>
>> Generally speaking, the reason scripts run faster when called
>> through FastCGI or the mod_* modules, is because the interpreter is
>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:03:14 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>(Your question is a little confused at the end. I'm choosing to
>understand: why can't we just run Python one-shot, like CGI? The likely
>alternative meaning is: why can't the incoming request be routed to an
>already-running Python program --
On 25/10/2012 12:45, Gilles wrote:
> I'd like to check something about running Python web applications.
>
> Generally speaking, the reason scripts run faster when called
> through FastCGI or the mod_* modules, is because the interpreter is
> already up and running. But when running PHP scripts, th
Hello
I'd like to check something about running Python web applications.
Generally speaking, the reason scripts run faster when called through
FastCGI or the mod_* modules, is because the interpreter is already up
and running.
But when running PHP scripts, this does nothing about fetching the
fil
