High performance Python web-app

[holger krekel]

Titus Brown wrote:
> In article <mailman.1021369764.31714.python-list at python.org>,
> holger krekel  <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:
> >> > My question is: are there any *stable* solutions available to enable
> >> > fast ptyhon web-apps running on Apache 2/Win32? (Mod_python only runs on
> >> > Apache 1.3 as far as I know and Mod_snake seems to have been taken off
> >> > line....)
> >> >
> >> 
> >> A recent thread seemed to suggest the best way would simply be to have
> >> Apache map a subset of URLs to a pure-Python server process.
> >
> >the configuration option is 'ProxyPass':
> >
> >    ProxyPass /sub/name/ http://localhost:7000
> 
> If you're going to go with a separate setup for the Python processes,
> you should take a look at AOLserver/PyWX (http://pywx.idyll.org/).   I
> also have instructions on how to map AOLserver into an Apache namespace
> with the Proxy stuff at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/.
> 
> Pure Python Web serving is butt slow; if speed is a concern, you really
> don't want to do things that way ;).

(i justed wanted to complete the information that Steve has given.)

I haven't done any speed comparison. do you know of any with the
mentioned setups?

    holger