Options for use of Python in dynamic web-pages?

[Jason Cunliffe]

Take look at Zope

www.zope.org

Many great features including ZODB adn acquisitoin.
Zope has an difficult learning curve for some, which will be greatly
improved by new documentation and O'Reilly book due out soon. ymmv
Veryactive community with their heads in the code.

Zope has server-side DTML tag markup which is vey powerful and uses some
pythonic syntax.
A good use of pure python is Zope External Methods. These are Python scripts
linked as Zope object and thus callable through the web by a url. Zope is
written in Python.

A fascinating and powerful framework, but you may opt to go for simple
direct cgi now and work up to Zope.

- Jason
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Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS.(Interactive Art and Technology).Design Director

Iwan van der Kleyn <ivdkleyn at xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:8rf0u1$rlf$1 at news1.xs4all.nl...
> Hi there,
>
> I have to implement a website with quite a lot of dynamic web-pages for a
> non-profit organisation. Because of this the target-platforms are Linux,
> Apache and Python (budgetary reasons; Python has been selected for its
ease
> of use though) . However, the present (static) site already generates
quite
> a lot of traffic so, guessing from all the negative commentary considering
> the performance of Python with "plain" CGI I've found on the Web, I'll
need
> a special module wich integrates the Python interpreter into Apache. (Zope
> is no option BTW, too complex for the moment :-)
>
> My question is: which one? I've found several modules wich promises fast
use
> of Python: pyApache, the "Python FastCGI Wrapper",
> mod_Python and "Webware for Python". Could anyone give advice about which
> product to use? Are they stable, any disadvantages?
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Iwan
>
>