PHP session equivalent?

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Walter Burleigh wrote:
> Erik Johnson wrote:
> 
>>     There are a lot of things about PHP I was not too keen on and hence
>>     why
>> my company is primarily doing Python these days, but one thing I was quite
>> impressed with was the ease with which it provided session
>> functionality...
> 
> Like you I think it is a big plus of PHP as a beginner's web development
> tool that it provides session management out of the box. It would certainly
> make python more attractive for beginners if they could use session
> management out of the box, too. (I know that there are lots of web
> development frameworks, but they are to be too difficult to learn, if you
> are new to web development).
> 
> There is no module for session management in the python standard library.
> But there are lots of python frameworks that would do this job well (my
> favorite: cherrypy). If you think that a whole framework would be overkill,
> you either could try to recylce the session part of an existing framework,
> or you could write a module for yourself. 
> 
> I have written a module which is quite similar to the php session
> management, except for that it does no url rewriting when cookies are not
> allowed. If you are interested, I will mail you a copy.

If you need session management, and do not want a complicated web app
framework, check out pso: http://pso.sf.net

Reinhold