[IronPython] Python Pages -- web application stack (like django, rails, ...)

[Jonathan Slenders]

2008/6/12 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:09:01 +0200, "Jonathan Slenders" <
> jonathan at slenders.be>
>
>> I'm working on a web application framework in Python, and just uploaded
>> the
>> first release.
>>
>> Now I quote from my own README. What it actually does is:
>>
>> - Provide an easy way to embed Python code into HTML, similar to PHP, JPS
>> and other server side languages.
>> - Make reusing HTML very easy. It uses concepts like master pages and
>>  including of other pages as a control. This is a very rich template
>>  mechanism.
>> ...
>>
>>
>
> May I ask what motivated you to create this from scratch?  There are a
> number of excellent Python web application frameworks available today,
> several of which have syntax and functionality almost exactly like yours.
>
> I'm not trying to say you shouldn't do such a thing, but people in the
> world at large already complain there are too many web frameworks for
> Python.  I'm just wondering why you didn't choose one of the existing
> frameworks that was close to what you wanted, and become a contributor to
> that.  Was there something you thought was fundamentally missing from the
> others?
>

Dear Tim,

You should know that I've been working on this project for about a year and
a half. Apart from Django, I didn't know even one framework that I liked
during this development. (Actually, at the start I didn't know about Django,
later on I did and realised it was good but had my reasons not to use it.
I'm not going to discuss it now.)

All that time it's just been the back-end for my personal web site - I had
never the intend to publish it. But the framework became gradually more and
more extensive and since a half year I realized that it was well designed
and could compete with others.
Some of my best friends are very active Django users, and when I showed my
framework, they also said that it was pretty similar to that.

If you know that many Python web frameworks, I'd really like to hear about
it. (I've seen several, yes, but some were very outdated and and not
maintained anymore)
Because I don't know much of them it's hard to say what I missed. But what I
wanted was:

- query parameters should be available as variables, but they shouldn't be
unpacked by default as was in PHP years ago (I want to declare the variables
that should be accepted)
- It *should* work perfectly well without database. (at the start of this
project, my hosting had no database)
- code should be reusable with master pages like ASP.net does
- when a master page is stored in another directory than the url's ("<a
href=...".) should be rewritten in a way so that they are always reusable to
the page from where the are generated
- form input fields should be available as objects.

Again, I didn't know any framework that does all this. Django needs a
database (not?) and the others which I found were crap, sorry....

Jonathan
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