Need a compelling argument to use Django instead of Rails

Bruno Desthuilliers onurb at xiludom.gro
Fri Aug 4 13:18:53 EDT 2006


Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Ben Sizer" <kylotan at gmail.com> writes:
>> Another perfectly good reason is that PHP pages are much simpler to
>> deploy than any given Python application server. Just add the code into
>> your HTML pages as required and you're done. Python could come close to
>> this if something like the Python Server Pages implementation in
>> mod_python was to become widely available and well known, but that
>> still requires overcoming the first problem.
> 
> I didn't realize you could do shared hosting with mod_python, because
> of the lack of security barriers between Python objects (i.e. someone
> else's application could reach into yours).  You really need a
> separate interpreter per user.

mod_python uses sub-interpreters - can be per virtual server, per
directory etc, cf
http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/dir-other-ipd.html
http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/dir-other-ipdv.html


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