Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Don Jennings
Welcome! I suggest you take a look at django [1]. You'll find that it has documentation [2] and an active developer community [3]. Of course, for your questions about learning python, you've already found a very helpful community : ) Take care, Don [1] http://www.djangoproject.com/ [2]

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread bob gailer
Jason DeBord wrote: Hello All, This is my first message on the mailing list. I am excited to get started developing content / backend for the web with Python. I have a background in PHP, but am convinced that Python is a better, more powerful language. I am on a Windows XP machine and I

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Jason DeBord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following for example: from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.write(Hello World!) return apache.OK Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit different compared

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread W W
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Jason DeBord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following for example: from mod_python import apache def handler(req): req.write(Hello World!) return apache.OK Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit different compared

Re: [Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

2008-11-25 Thread Spencer Parker
You might also want to look at Pylons...its another excellent web framework built for Python. The community around it, I feel, is better than Django. People are pretty willing to answer any and all questions you have. It gives more control to the developer as oppiosed to Django. I just switched