Web devel with python. Whats the best route?

[Lele Gaifax]

>>>>> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 17:46:13 +0100, "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> said:

    AM> "Chris Watson" <chris at voodooland.net> wrote in message
    AM> news:mailman.978910629.6814.python-list at python.org...
    >> I'm about to start converting the small fool proof (ha ha)
    >> admin system I have been working from console based to web
    >> based. What is the easiest way to go about integrating python
    >> into apache so I can start web'izing this app? mod_python,
    >> mod_snake, PyApache?

    AM> CGI.  Really.  Your admin system doesn't look like the kind of
    AM> thing that will be continuously getting multiple hits a
    AM> second, making CGI overhead a problem.  If that is the case,
    AM> CGI is easiest.  *Do the simplest thing that can possibly
    AM> work*!

PyApache does exactly this, only faster... 
...but I'm a little biased here :)
 
    AM> <snip>

    AM> "Session continuity" will have to be provided via cookies, but
    AM> that's not really all that hard -- the amount of state you
    AM> need to save and restore between hits is most likely limited
    AM> anyway (making it acceptable for cookie-residence), or else
    AM> you can always use appropriate shelve files (presumably
    AM> relying on gdbm, whihc is OK) and just cookie the
    AM> shelve-access keys (that might impact scalability IF you were
    AM> close to the hit-per-second mark, but, are you _really_
    AM> worried about such loads?).

All mentioned modules do help in session handling, by providing some
sort of persistent storage (tipically a dictionary).

    AM> Then again, maybe I'm simply being a dinosaur
    AM> on this specific theme!-)

You are not alone !-)

    AM> Alex

Ciao, lele.

PS: Alex, un ciao particolare! Ti ricordi di me? Sublink... :)
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