"Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > web application consisting of a client that makes simple queries > to a backend which returns data from a database (initially > pysqlite3).
When you say a client do you mean a robotic browser? Or do you mean the web application will be a client/server architecture? > Are the Python urlparse, urllib, urllib2, These will build a robotic client of that's what you need. > httplib, You probably won't need this if it's just a simple app. > BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer etc. These are OK to start with but you will also need the cgi module to create the server code > The number of queries per second will initially be low, in the > 10's/second. tens per second is quite high for a simple CGI app accessing a database. Up to 10 per second should be fine but if you get up to 20,30 or more I'd consider using a real web server (Apache or a simpler one like Xitami) and you may even want to investigate fastCGI or some of the simpler web frameworks like CherryPy. Finally watch out for locking issues around the database if your transactions are writing as well as reading data. HTH, -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
