advice needed for simple python web app

[Dave Cook]

On 2005-02-04, Dan Perl <danperl at rogers.com> wrote:

> I have a pretty simple python script and I would like to turn it into a web 
> application but web apps are a domain I know very little about.  I know that 
> Twisted, CherryPy, Plone and Zope exist but not exactly what they do.  I 

I think CherryPy is the lightest and easiest if you need a built-in server.
I was impressed by its intuitiveness, though I don't really like the default
templating system.

I'm using Nevow (slick!) and Twisted now, but you pay for the flexiblility
with a steep learning curve, and lack of documentation and API stability are
an issue with Nevow.

Inspired by an example on Bruce Eckel's blog, I tried writing a web app with
only the server that comes with the standard lib, but it was just too hard
for me to build an app starting from that low a level. The frameworks help a
lot here.

Dave Cook