Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-10 Thread uche . ogbuji
goon wrote: > > Trying to research this on the web now > > Lots of articles now appearing summarising WSGI ... > > For definitive reference: > > [0] > > Overview: > > [1] and > [

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-09 Thread Gregory Piñero
Thanks for all the answers everyone. It's finally starting to come together for me. Bruno, I tried reading some tutorials but perhaps I made the content out to be more complicated than it really was and got confused. So my final question is if WSGI will work on any web hosting company that suppo

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-09 Thread Ian Bicking
Gregory Piñero wrote: > What I'm most confused about is how it affects me. I've been writing > small CGI programs in Python for a while now whenever I have a need > for a web program. Is CGI now considered "Bad"? I've just always > found it easier to write something quickly with the CGI library

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Gregory Piñero enlightened us with: >> So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I >> still don't understand what it is exactly > > AFAIK it's a standard for web frameworks. It's not. It's a protocol for HTTP servers <-> Python web applications int

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Gregory Piñero wrote: > So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I > still don't understand what it is exactly A protocol for web servers/python programs interaction. Just like CGI is a protocol for web servers/whatever-language programs interactions. Gregory, you'll fi

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread goon
> Trying to research this on the web now Lots of articles now appearing summarising WSGI ... For definitive reference: [0] Overview: [1] and [2] Reference [0] python.org,

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread fumanchu
Gregory Piñero wrote: > Examples of how frameworks don't meet my needs sometimes: > 1. Working with SQL Server (Most frameworks seem to at least make it extra > work) I don't know about "most frameworks", but there are certainly some that work with SQL Server. My Dejavu ORM does SQL Server and MS

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread Damjan
> So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I > still don't understand what it is exactly and how it differs from CGI > in the fundamentals (Trying to research this on the web now) > > What I'm most confused about is how it affects me. I've been writing > small CGI progr

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Theerasak Photha enlightened us with: >> > 3. Using IIS [...] >> >> Why would you want to use that monstrosity? > > Two words: "contractual obligation" That doesn't answer the question. It only makes me ask it to someone else, namely the parties involved in creating the contract. Sybren -- Sybre

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 10/8/06, Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Using IIS at all for that matter, does WSGI work on IIS, do any > > frameworks? > > Why would you want to use that monstrosity? Two words: "contractual obligation" -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread Sybren Stuvel
Gregory Piñero enlightened us with: > So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I > still don't understand what it is exactly AFAIK it's a standard for web frameworks. In such a framework, you receive a 'request' object, and return a 'response' object. If I'm correct, the

WSGI - How Does It Affect Me?

2006-10-08 Thread Gregory Piñero
So I keep hearing more and more about this WSGI stuff, and honestly I still don't understand what it is exactly and how it differs from CGI in the fundamentals (Trying to research this on the web now) What I'm most confused about is how it affects me. I've been writing small CGI programs in Pytho