Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-12-15 Thread Benoit
Gluon was made at my school? I seriously gotta start talking to the CTI department. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
johnbraduk a écrit : > Thomas, > Like many others I have been going round the same loop for months. > > I have struggled with most of the Python solutions, including > TurboGears and have given up and gone back to ColdFusion. I am not > trying to kick of a religious war about the pros and cons of

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-27 Thread johnbraduk
Thomas, Like many others I have been going round the same loop for months. I have struggled with most of the Python solutions, including TurboGears and have given up and gone back to ColdFusion. I am not trying to kick of a religious war about the pros and cons of ColdFusion as a scripting langau

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-16 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I have posted a new version of Gluon and some slides. I am hoping to have a draft manual soon. I believe I have fixed all of the issues that have been addressed but, if not, please let me know. Massimo Did you try gluon? http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples On Oct 13, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Kay Sch

Re: Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-15 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 14, 3:46 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we do agree entirely, it is just that the application we have > in > mind is more a collection of web services than a traditional Web > application. > Now, since you are here, there is an unrelated question that I want to >

Re: Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-14 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Oct 14, 6:46 pm, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, since you are here, there is an unrelated question that I want to > ask you, concerning the future of Paste with respect to WSGI 2.0. > I do realize that at this stage WSGI 2.0, is only a draft Hmmm, not sure where people keep

Paste and WSGI 2.0 [WAS: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks]

2007-10-14 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 14, 2:52 am, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, going without a framework (which at least in his article is > what Michele seems to be comparing Pylons against) isn't always so > bad. I started writing an Atompub server in Pylons, but felt like I > was spending too much tim

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 6, 8:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Well... Last year, I had a look at Pylons, then played a bit with wsgi > and building my own framework over it. I finally dropped that code and > went back to Pylons, which I felt could become far better than my own > efforts. Now since then I had wa

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Ian Bicking
On Oct 6, 8:29 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you (or something else) have something to say about Beaker? > I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have > not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a > production-level WSGI session middleware and I wonde

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> ... I almost forgot ... > > another difference between Gluon and Django,TG is that in Gluon if > you write controllers without view you automatically get generic view > that render and BEAUTIFY() the variables returned by the controllers. > That means you can develop the logic of your application

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
... I almost forgot ... another difference between Gluon and Django,TG is that in Gluon if you write controllers without view you automatically get generic view that render and BEAUTIFY() the variables returned by the controllers. That means you can develop the logic of your application with

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hi Daniel, in many respects Gluon is similar to Django and was greatly inspired by Django. Some differences are: Gluon is easier to install - you never need to use the shell, there are no configuration files. Gluon is a web app. You can do all development via a web interface. You can compil

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-13 Thread Daniel Fetchinson
> Hello everybody, > > I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. > > I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more > over the week-end. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk > > About some of your comments: > - the most complex modules (li

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 13, 4:23 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. > > I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more > over the week-end. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 12, 10:23 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible > we have met in Pisa in 1990-1996? I am also a Quantum Field Theorist > and there is not many of us. That is definitely possible, even if I don't remember yo

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > happy to hear that. > you may want take a loot at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/vqcd > It is mostly python stuff and will post the code soon. Ah, memories :) I'm not working on QCD anymore, but I did write a bunch of code a while back to script Mayavi (the old one, not the

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
happy to hear that. you may want take a loot at http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/vqcd It is mostly python stuff and will post the code soon. Massimo On Oct 12, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: > Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > >> P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Fernando Perez
Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > P.S. Michele Simionato. I have heard your name before? Is it possible > we have met in Pisa in 1990-1996? I am also a Quantum Field Theorist > and there is not many of us. More than you think, it seems. Some of us were even using python to process Lattice QCD computati

Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-12 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Hello everybody, I just joined this mailing list. Thanks for your comments about gluon. I have posted a short video about it and I am planning to make more over the week-end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBjja6N6IYk About some of your comments: - the most complex modules (like html and sql

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 10, 8:15 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > >>http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples > > > The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces > > were mixed and when I open a file like gluon/global.py I find sections > > like this: > > > class

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Otten
Kay Schluehr wrote: >> http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples > > The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces > were mixed and when I open a file like gluon/global.py I find sections > like this: > > class Request(Storage): > """ > defines the request object and th

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into > something new and different > > http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples The delivered sourcecode is syntactically broken. Tabs and whitespaces were mixed and when I open a file like gluon/glo

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into > something new and different > > http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples Requiring Python 2.5 may not be a good idea for the time being. For instance, I am forced to use Python 2.4 because of

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 9, 11:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into > something new and different > > http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples This is actually a neat framework! I'm a somewhat of fan of web- frameworks and I used most major ones and I like to po

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread GHUM
Michele, > At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at > the available options on the current market. just because you were involved in creating an own version of Python does NOT free you from the social obligation to create your own Python web framework. So stop shoppi

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-10 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 10, 5:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into > something new and different > > http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples Well, the name is certainly appealing to an old gauge field theorist like myself ;) Michele Simionato -- http://ma

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-09 Thread mdipierro
Since you are starting a new project you may want to look into something new and different http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread John Nagle
Michele Simionato wrote: > I wait with > impatience the time when Web programming will become a solved > problem with a standard built-in solution that works. That will probably come from Microsoft. At least for all-Microsoft environments. They're the only player who controls enough of the p

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 6:14 pm, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 7, 12:24 pm, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Here we disagree: I think that a programmer should know what he > > is using. > > My point was that they should not *need* to know. Too much information > can be de

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Istvan Albert
On Oct 7, 12:24 pm, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here we disagree: I think that a programmer should know what he > is using. My point was that they should not *need* to know. Too much information can be detrimental. > > Where is the session data stored: in memory, files, databa

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 11:31 am, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO this is not as much a framework comparison rather than an > evaluation of the individual components that make up Pylons. More in general let's say that I am interested in the evaluation of WSGI-compatible components. > The framewo

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Istvan Albert
IMO this is not as much a framework comparison rather than an evaluation of the individual components that make up Pylons. The framework is the sum of all its parts. Programmers should not need to know that that a package named Beaker is used for sessions, Routes for url mapping, PasteDeploy for

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 7, 8:36 am, Bruno Desthuilliers > Indeed. But AFAICT, Lawrence and Michele problems is not to port an > existing web application, but to choose a web framework that will play > well with their existing *system* (RDBMS, existing apps and libs etc). > Which is quite another problem, and may el

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Steve Holden a écrit : > Lawrence Oluyede wrote: (snip) >> We (Michele, myself and our colleagues) have a series of stuff we need >> to stick to so the choosing of a web framework ain't that easy. Most of >> the frameworks are a vision of the author of how to do things from >> scratch but a framewo

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Holden
Lawrence Oluyede wrote: > Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is good, since a lot of good things from Pylons will work with TG and a >> lot of good TG things will remain (and possibly be compatible with Pylons). >> If you take a better look at "the next version", you'll also see that th

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread James Matthews
But the question is when will the cheap hosting company's start to host normal python files! On 10/7/07, genro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 7, 8:35 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > > > > > Michele Simionato a écrit : > > > >

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-07 Thread genro
On Oct 7, 8:35 am, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > > > Michele Simionato a écrit : > > > > I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have > > > not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a > > > production-level WSGI sessi

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 12:57 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > Michele Simionato a écrit : > > > I looked at the source code and it seems fine to me, but I have > > not used it directly, not stressed it. I need a > > production-level WSGI session middleware and I wonder what the > > players are (for instance how Beaker

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Michele Simionato a écrit : > On Oct 6, 9:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - talking about routes, you say: >> >> """ >> I have no Ruby On Rails background, so I don't see the advantages of routes. >> """ >> >> I don't have any RoR neither, but as far as I'm concerned, one o

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Kay Schluehr
> I really, really like Django (and its community and the competence of > the developers) and I think it deserves what it has gained and more but > we are not here to decide who's the best (there's always no best). +1 QOTW -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should > include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give > good reason why the comparison excludes them. I think you didn't read the foreword of the comparison. That is by no means a comprehe

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is good, since a lot of good things from Pylons will work with TG and a > lot of good TG things will remain (and possibly be compatible with Pylons). > If you take a better look at "the next version", you'll also see that the > major concern was with WS

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 9:13 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > - talking about routes, you say: > > """ > I have no Ruby On Rails background, so I don't see the advantages of routes. > """ > > I don't have any RoR neither, but as far as I'm concerned, one of the > big points with routes is url_for(), that avoids

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Michele Simionato a écrit : > At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at > the available options > on the current market. In particular I have looked at Paste and Pylons > and I have written my > impressions here: > > http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/yet-anot

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
On Oct 6, 7:15 am, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: > > Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should > > include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give > > good reason why the comparison excludes them. Mine is not a respectable comparison of

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Jorge Godoy
Lawrence Oluyede wrote: > Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) >> http://turbogears.org/ >> For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. > > Yeah, so integrated that the next version will be based upon Pylons ;-) ? What is good, since a lot of good thi

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Jorge Godoy
Tim Chase wrote: > Any respectable comparison of Python web frameworks should > include evaluation of at least Django and TG. Or at least give > good reason why the comparison excludes them. When he said that he didn't want anything complex neither anything that used a templating system, I thou

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Tim Chase
>> At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been >> looking at the available options on the current market. > > At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) > http://turbogears.org/ > For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. Django [1] barely gets anything more than a mention as well.

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) > http://turbogears.org/ > For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. Yeah, so integrated that the next version will be based upon Pylons ;-) ? -- Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it "It is difficult to get a ma

Re: Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Thomas Wittek
Michele Simionato: > At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at > the available options > on the current market. At least, you missed Turbo Gears :) http://turbogears.org/ For me, it feels more integrated than Pylons. -- Thomas Wittek Web: http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/

Yet another comparison of Python Web Frameworks

2007-10-06 Thread Michele Simionato
At work we are shopping for a Web framework, so I have been looking at the available options on the current market. In particular I have looked at Paste and Pylons and I have written my impressions here: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~micheles/python/yet-another-comparison-of-web-frameworks.html I d