Python web service ...

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On 26 Aug 2006 09:12:50 -0700, NicolasG <nicolasg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For a one-shot thing, plain old CGI might be enough. You can have a
> > static HTML page with the form for the upload, have python do the
> > image part, and generate the return HTML with the image with a python
> > script.  If you plan to do this a lot, or want fairly sophisticated
> > stuff, or DB access underneath, authentication, etc, then you might
> > want to look at any of the web framewoks. If you don't have the web
> > server part already taken care of (e.g., you already have Apache up
> > and running) then the web server framework can be more attractive.
> >
> > As for web frameworks there is a long list in the Python web site.
> > Which framework fits you best might depend on what you want to
> > accomplish now and in the future. You can try something simple and
> > minimalist (and with docs that you can read in less than an afternoon)
> > such as Karrigell, or try something more complex, such as Django,
> > TurboGears, Pylons, CherryPy, etc.
> >
> > And then, you might try the CGI approach to begin with, and as your
> > needs become more complex, move to a framework. (This has been our own
> > path: we've used plain CGI for over a year for the web-based
> > bioinformatics applications we've developed, that use R and Python for
> > computations, and are now moving to  framework).
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > R.
> >
> > --
> > Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
>
> At this time right now I prefer to do something that works the quickest
> possible...
> I never had any experience with CGI, do I need to set up a web server
> for that ?

Yes, you'd need to configure a web server. I don't know whether you
are on windows or Unix/Linux, and that could seriously affect how easy
it is to set up a web server. Most Linux distros make installing
apache a piece of cake, but configuring Apache might not be trivial.

Thus, maybe the fastest and easiest is, as other posters have
suggested, to try Karrigell.


> can you point me some usefull reading material so I can get a start ?
> I will post for a comment at Zope , I had installed once and it was
> very easy. Don't know if it will be easy too to get my job done...
>

But Zope seems to have a steep learning curve and it is a big system.
It might be a huge hassle for what you want.

Best,

R.