htmllib, cgi, HTMLfmt, genCGI, HTMLgen, html, Zope, ...

[Thomas Ackermann]

Hi!

I need to generate some hompages and cgi-script for database access,
forms and such and want to do it in Python, of course. As it is i have
no experience with it's WWW-related stuff ...

There are htmllib and cgi from the library, HTMLfmt and genCGI from
the "Internet Programming with Python" book, HTMLgen itself and
something just announced called "html", which seems to be a variant of
HTMLgen(?!)

I have not much time to experiment with those modules and would like
to hear opinions about to use what module     ;-)

Also, i am not exactly sure what Zope is - it seems to be something to
create WWW-Pages and allow access to databases and it has it's own
WebServer (a variant of Medusa) ...

So, what to use to allow for an Internet-Shop with pages created from
databases and allowing customers to purchase over net?

Can do Zope such things? Is it overkill at first? What can it do
beyond? (And yes, i read some documentation, but i do not even
understand what an "Application Server" is    ;-)

	  Thanx in advance and
	  Byebye,
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