Re: WHIFF - was: Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-16 Thread Aaron Watters
On Apr 15, 4:35 pm, Gerhard Häring wrote: > WTF?! This is weird stuff! Why the hell would I use this instead of a > Python web framework like Django/Pylons/etc. Ok folks. I've added a page: "Whiff is cool because: How do you make a page like this using another package?" http://aaron.o

Re: WHIFF - was: Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-15 Thread Aaron Watters
> You should perhaps contrast WHIFF with the other offerings for creating > web applications. > > -- Gerhard You're right. Thanks for visiting! I'll have to think. Basically I don't want something which takes over the controls. I'll have to think about a better way to explain what I mean. -

WHIFF - was: Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-15 Thread Gerhard Häring
Aaron Watters wrote: > On Apr 15, 3:49 am, Tim Hoffman wrote: > >> There are plenty of python web frameworks, some have quite different >> approaches, >> what suits you will depend very much on your own bias, interest. > > I've had a lot of luck with WHIFF > ( http://whiff.sourceforge.net ) > Of

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-15 Thread Aaron Watters
On Apr 15, 3:49 am, Tim Hoffman wrote: > There are plenty of python web frameworks, some have quite different > approaches, > what suits you will depend very much on your own bias, interest. I've had a lot of luck with WHIFF ( http://whiff.sourceforge.net ) Of course I wrote it and just released

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-15 Thread Tim Hoffman
Hi For a rake alternative have a look at aap http://www.a-a-p.org/ It won't be a drop in replacement but, does provide similiar functionality ( i have used to drive delphi, visualstudio, borland c and bunch of other stuff build scripts to make a complete windows desktop app) and automagically bui

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Martin
Hi, On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM, wrote: > 2) Gems - I've seen a bit about Eggs, but they don't seem to have > anywhere near the official status gems do for Ruby. Are there any > "package management" things like this for Python, or do you usually > just grab the code you need as-is? On a sid

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread laplacia...@gmail.com
On Apr 14, 3:01 am, blahemailb...@gmail.com wrote: > > 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, > and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make > replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with > Python itself. Is there anythin

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread blahemailblah
Thanks for the help everyone. I'll take some time to go through these and how they all work. I appreciate the feedback. :) Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, > and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make > replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with > Python itself. Is there anything like a Python build tool? Depends on what you want

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 4/14/2009 3:01 AM blahemailb...@gmail.com apparently wrote: 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with Python itself. Is there any

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Emmanuel Surleau
Hi there, Ruby transfuge too. > Although I'm not 100% new to Python, most of my experience using high- > level languages is with Ruby. I had a job doing Rails web development > a little ways back and I really enjoyed it. At my current workplace > though, we're looking at using Python and I'm tryin

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Emmanuel Surleau
Hi > > 1) Is there anything like a Python build tool? (Or do I > > even need something like that?) > > If you're going to run the python source code, you don't need anything. > Python builds what it needs automagically. Some tools exist to build > stand-alone executables though, if you'd like to do

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Hi, 1) Is there anything like a Python build tool? (Or do I even need something like that?) If you're going to run the python source code, you don't need anything. Python builds what it needs automagically. Some tools exist to build stand-alone executables though, if you'd like to do so (e.g.

Re: Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread Jason Scheirer
On Apr 14, 12:01 am, blahemailb...@gmail.com wrote: > Although I'm not 100% new to Python, most of my experience using high- > level languages is with Ruby. I had a job doing Rails web development > a little ways back and I really enjoyed it. At my current workplace > though, we're looking at using

Using Python after a few years of Ruby

2009-04-14 Thread blahemailblah
Although I'm not 100% new to Python, most of my experience using high- level languages is with Ruby. I had a job doing Rails web development a little ways back and I really enjoyed it. At my current workplace though, we're looking at using Python and I'm trying to get back into the Python "groove"