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] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ [3] http://www.djangoproject.com/community/ On 11/25/08, Jason DeBord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 have been using XAMPP for server, php, > mysql... > > I installed Python 2.5 and mod_python successfully. I can serve pages with > .py extension to http://localhost . > > 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 to what I am used to. > > So, my question, would you all please point me to some introductory > resources, tutorials, books, that focus on Python programming for the web? I > am eventually going to interface with some web services, notably Amazon Web > Services. Also, I'd like to write some server side scripts to serve as a > backend to some Adobe AIR apps. > > Any and all advice is extremely appreciated. > > Thanks for your time! > > Sincerely, > > Jason > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
