web development without using frameworks

[Chris Stewart]

Interesting.  So I guess to accomplish my goals, I'll have to explore one of
these frameworks.


On 6/5/07, bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com <bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Jun 5, 9:24 pm, Christoph Haas <e... at christoph-haas.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:01:01PM -0400, Chris Stewart wrote:
> > > I'm interested in learning web based python without the use of fancy
> frameworks
> > > that are out there.  I'm having a hard time coming up with resources
> and
> > > examples for this.  Does anyone have anything that could be helpful?
> >
> > I'd say the only decent ways are either using a full-featured framework
> > (I favor Pylons) or write plain CGIs. Even for the later a look
> intohttp://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworksmight be useful (I wouldn't
> > say that "web.py" is really a framework - and it's listed there). Or you
> > write plain-old CGIs with Python's "cgi" module. I have also started
> > like that but currently only use frameworks because the "cgi" module is
> > pretty limited (compared to what Perl offers) and for serious
> > applications not really the way to go.
> >
>
> <answering to the OP>
> I can only second Christoph's answer. Using bare CGI, you'll rapidly
> find you have to set up some common things like sessions, templating,
> url to actions dispatch etc - IOW, reinventing the (square) wheel. So
> unless your goal is to learn the "low-level" parts of web programming
> (which is a very legitimate goal - as far as I'm concerned, I'd like
> to see more 'web developpers' doing so), my advice is also to look for
> a simple, flexible, non-intrusive framework (web.py and Pylons come to
> mind).
>
> My 2 (euro) cents.
>
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