Pythonic way of web-programming

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Mon Apr 14 21:46:31 EDT 2003


>I think it's sad that Python has this slogan "there's only one way
>to do it", but that nowhere is this less true than web development.
>At Python-UK I opined that this might be holding us back in comparison
>to other languages and tools.

Not a bad point overall.

Of course, you're sort of leveraging the wrong quip. "There's only
one way to do it" applies to the *language*. It's never applied to
API's, really.

At the risk of boldly tossing incidental mud up in the face of
the entirety of all Pythonistas, I really don't think our community
has enough cohesion or clout to put together a uniform .NET/Web Services
style package with standards-establishing authority. We're not Microsoft,
after all, with a cool $billion to dispose of at a sneeze.

What you'll have to do instead is wait for the competitive feeding
frenzy to end and allow the technically superior platform to present
itself. This is both the bane and boon of open software in action,
IMO, and at a guess it very much applies here.

C//





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