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Looking at Python web frameworks

3 May 2007

Written by: Chris Austin Posted under Python, Programming

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.2 (Linux)" /><meta name="AUTHOR" content="Chris Austin" /><meta name="CREATED" content="20070503;13545400" /><meta name="CHANGEDBY" content="Chris Austin" /><meta name="CHANGED" content="20070503;14115400" /><br /> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Lately I’ve been investigating alternatives to ASP.net. I don’t have any real gripes with ASP.net but, I am interested in alternatives just for the sake of looking at different approaches than webforms.</p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">What I am finding almost overwhelming is the sheer number of Python frameworks that are available. For a quick look, you can see a nice long list <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks"target="_blank" title="http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/wiki.python.org');">here</a> at python.org.</p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">From my research, the most popular frameworks are</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.turbogears.org/"target="_blank" title="http://www.turbogears.org/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/www.turbogears.org');">TurboGears</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/"target="_blank" title="http://www.djangoproject.com/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/www.djangoproject.com');">Django</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.zope.org/"target="_blank" title="http://www.zope.org/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/www.zope.org');">Zope</a></li> </ul> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Additionally there are some up and coming players</p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <ul> <li><a href="http://pylonshq.com/"target="_blank" title="http://pylonshq.com/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/pylonshq.com');">pylons</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://webpy.org/"target="_blank" title="http://webpy.org/" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/webpy.org');">web.py</a></li> </ul> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">In order to really get a feel for these I am going to build a not to trivial web app in Django, TurboGears, Pylons &, web.py. I am leaving out Zope because I’ve read that there is a steep curve and I’m trying to have fun with it.</p> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">As I build up the apps in the different frameworks I am going to be looking for a few things.</p> <ol> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Database integration.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">How easy apps can be deployed.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">AJAX intergration.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Performance.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Stability.</p> </li> <li> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Development tools.</p> </li> </ol> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in"> <p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Of these I am most concerned with production stability and the deployment options. I’ll try to evaluate one framework at a time and report as I go.</p> </p> <br/> <h3 class="reply"> One Response to ' Looking at Python web frameworks '</h3> <p class="comment_meta">Subscribe to comments with <a href='http://www.codechris.com/looking-at-python-web-frameworks/feed/'><abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr></a> or <a href="http://www.codechris.com/looking-at-python-web-frameworks/trackback/" rel="trackback"> TrackBack </a> to ' Looking at Python web frameworks '. </p> <ol class="commentlist"> <li class="" id="comment-18"> <div class="comment_author"> <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/job-posting-widget" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/www.widgetbox.com');" rel='external nofollow'>Christopher Lozinski</a> said, </div> <br /> <p class="metadate">on May 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm </p> <p>I run 1 specialty job market for zope, django, etc. </p> <p>Would you like to add some job board widgets to your website, for those technologies. </p> <p>Regards<br 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