[thelist] Python Web Scripting

Simon Willison cs1spw at bath.ac.uk
Thu Oct 23 17:02:25 CDT 2003


Tarrant Costelloe wrote:
> I have recently been dabbling in the fine language that is Python
> [www.python.org]. I was curious as to whether anyone was creating any
> commercial web applications using it and if so what and any other
> information you might have to hand.

I started using Python for commercial web development just over a month 
ago. Python suffers from a glut of web development frameworks - on the 
one hand this means there are plenty of options to chose from, on the 
other hand it means chosing one is pretty difficult.

I've deployed one application using Python CGI (only the admin panel was 
CGI, the public site was statically generated by the admin tools so CGI 
performance was not an issue) but we're currently building a large 
system using mod_python.

The biggest problem with the many Python frameworks is a lack of 
standardisation of the APIs. A Web SIG (special interest group) has 
recently been created to address this, and the mailing list for that is 
just getting going with some great ideas flying around. If you're 
interested in Python for web development you may find it worthwhile to 
join in the discussions: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/web-sig

-- 
Simon Willison
Web development weblog: http://simon.incutio.com/



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