Trying to understand Python web-development

[walterbyrd]

Thanks for all that posts. This thread has been helpful.

I have seen a lot of posts about the importance of decoupling the
deployment technologies from the framework technologies. This is how I
have done that in PHP. I develop on my home box. When I get something
working the way I want, I ftp those files to the remote server. To me,
that seems to make more sense that trying to run two different web
servers on the same system. My PHP system involves no monkeying with
special config files, or running special servers to couple the
different environments, or setting special ports, or paths. For PHP
development, I don't even need ssh access.

> I think that this (the ease of PHP application deployment) is one of
the things that keeps Python framework developers up at night

I think you may have something there. For $10 a year I can get an
account at dollar-hosting.net, copy some php files there, and that's
all there to it. I have been beating my brains out trying to get
anything working with a python framework, and I have not been able to
do it. I even bought VPS hosting just for the sake of python
development. But, I still can not seem to make the quantum leap of
getting something that works locally, to work remotely. BTW: with the
VPS hosting, I had to install and configure my own web-hosting and
PHP, including setting up lighttpd with fastcgi and php modules - and
I still found that much easier than getting anything to work with
python.