what python technology for my app?

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Just thought I'd make a little suggestion about this, I don’t know how
strict you want to be with the web development side of things, but I'm a web
developer by trade and have recently started using python for my non-web
type applications.

If you're looking for a web based server side solution, then you can't go
wrong with Adobe ColdFusion. Its and incredibly powerful and scalable
development platform and yet supports a simple tag based language which
makes life very easy when getting started, and yet will support much more
complex OOP methodology with a whole myriad of frameworks, orm's and object
factories.

For a quick 'run down' of its features take a look at the simple tutorials
on the adobe site, they'll demonstrate how easy it is to achieve even quite
complex tasks like PDF creation, animated statistical charts an all sorts.
As CF is a JAVA based technology you get the power of J2EE platform and its
perfectly multi platform playing nicely with linux, unix, sun, windows or
whatever server environment you wish to run it on.

Just my two pence, I'm a big CF fan so my opinions are no doubt bias, but
might be worth you taking a look.

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/coldfusion/

Pay attention to the 'ColdFusion Demos' at the bottom right of the main
column.

Rob

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Subject: Re: what python technology for my app?

Chris a écrit :
> I have an database containing lots of numerical data. I want to write a 
> browser based interface that will allow selection of various key 
> parameters and yield tables, plots and/or printouts of the data 
> according to the selections. Ultimately I want this to run on an 
> intranet so that others can get access via their browsers.
> 
> The application is for in-house use only and not likely to have more 
> than a few users at any one time. I've managed to hack out enough 
> understanding of sql and sqlAlchemy over the last couple of days to 
> create and access an sqlite3 based database for my data. This seems to 
> suit my purposes for now. Now for a front end and some simple 
> distribution over a network.
> 
> I have written some small Wxpython & matplotlib apps for data analysis 
> and display but I'm not sure how these would work in a browser based 
> world, or even if they are appropriate.

wxPython being a GUI toolkit, it's of course not really appropriate for 
a web-based solution (and yes, this is an understatement).

I don't have any experience with matplotlib, but according to the 
project's FAQ, this shouldn't be a problem:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#BATCHMODE

> 
> Any advice on what technologies I should be looking at for this? Python 
> based naturally, and hopefully simple and lightweight. I'm not a 
> programmer by trade and that's not what I really get paid for but I've 
> learned to love python and its myriad of modules for all the data 
> analysis work I need to do. If I can throw something moderately 
> functional together in a week or two (along with all the learning that 
> entails)

If you don't have any experience with web programming, it might take a 
bit more time.

> I'll be happy.

Pylons (http://pylonshq.com) and turbogears are two great web 
frameworks. Both support SQLAlchemy. My own favourite is Pylons, but you 
should try both and choose the one that better fits your brain.

> btw - Platform needs to be windows because that's what on my desk.

Python is mostly platform independant.

HTH
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