Are Django/Turbogears too specific?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gilles Ganault a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to rewrite a Web 2.0 PHP application in Python with AJAX, and
> it seems like Django and Turbogears are the frameworks that have the
> most momentum.
> 
> I'd like to use this opportunity to lower the load on servers, as the
> PHP application wasn't built to fit the number of users hammering the
> servers now.
> 
> I'm concerned, though, that these frameworks they may be too specific
> to the tasks they were originally developped for (news articles,
> AFAIK). Do you think I should just use eg. CherryPy and some basic
> AJAX?

I can't tell about Turbogears, but you're dead wrong if you think that 
there's anything specific to "news articles" in Django. It's *not* a 
CMS, it's a web programming framework, and is totally agnostic about 
what kind of application you're using it for.