Python for web ?

[Jay O'Connor]

black wrote:

> Howdy everyone~
>  
> i heard Python could be used in web programming and aftering searching 
> many docs just found something on Python and CGI. the fact is i know 
> nothing about CGI and most of my projects(both of company and myself) 
> are established with PHP and ASP. now the questions come:
>  
> 1. Could Python be used in web programming ? (i guess yes ?)
> 2. If the answer of above is yes, then can we programms with Python in 
> both server and client side or either ?


If by 'client side' you mean 'Python embedded in the HTML page' like 
PHP, I think it's possible but I tend to avoid it.  First off, for any 
such HTML embedded scripting you have to have a server that while parse 
and execute the script.  A lot of ISPs offer that for PHP but I'm not 
sure about for Python. More importantly, though, I'm not a big fan of 
the architecture of having HTML code interspersed with script coding.  I 
think you'd end up with a better software design with a normal 
CGI-template approach