Python for CGI scripting

[Duncan Booth]

Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> wrote in
news:evatkuo2jnnl281vvcvhbph1c9hkp6laro at 4ax.com: 

>>Doing it this way lets you keep the Python process completely separate
>>from the Apache server (even to run it on a separate machine if you
>>wish) and gives you freedom to run multiple python processes with
>>simple load balancing if that should become necessary.
> 
> Are you trying to scare me?

No, just spoil you for choice. :-)

Seriously though, it depends on just how high traffic you envisage, and 
while YAGNI is the best principle it also helps to avoid boxing yourself 
into a corner unnecessarily. I have been looking a bit at using ZServer 
separate from Zope as I think that gives a very nice base for doing web 
applications. CherryPy, mentioned in another post is a similar idea, 
although I have no direct experience of it.

If you simply run CGI scripts in a long running process, do you want to 
allow communication between separate scripts? What about holding session 
state, or sharing database connections? Maybe these things are important to 
you, maybe not.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?