web front-end, Python back end?

[Steve Holden]

"Heiko Wundram" <heiko at ph0enix.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.1054233289.14720.python-list at python.org...
Quoting Guy Middleton <guy at obstruction-no-spam.com>:

> The system on which it is running already has PHP installed, so I thought
I
> could write some kind of PHP front end.  Is this a common approach?  We
are
> favouring PHP because the maintenance issues, so that we can have the same
> person (who is not familiar with Python) support this and the existing PHP
> applications.

I'm doing the same thing here too... We have a PHP program, which I recently
extended in ways that seemed undoable in Python, and that's why I wrote a
Python backend for the PHP program. The Python backend runs using Twisted,
and serves pages as XMLRPC, which the PHP program can query. In case you
[...]
I'd be very surprised if Python can't do whatever you chose PHP for. Would
you maybe tell us what you found Python incapable of?

regards
--
Steve Holden                                  http://www.holdenweb.com/
Python Web Programming                 http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/