Python3 on the Web

[Graham Dumpleton]

On Mar 6, 4:13 am, Johannes Permoser <ee... at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to learn Python from scratch and start off with Version 3.
> Since I already know PHP very well, I thought it would be nice to start
> off with a small web-project.
>
> But what's the way to bring python3 to the Web?
> mod_python isn't available, cgi is said to be slow, mod_wsgi looks
> complicated...

Is it WSGI you really mean is complicated or mod_wsgi itself? They are
not the same thing, with mod_wsgi just being one implementation of
WSGI.

In comparison to mod_python the mod_wsgi package is simpler to install
and setup, but then if you really meant WSGI as a concept then it is a
different matter and yes without using some higher level WSGI
framework or toolkit, then WSGI can be a bit more daunting and might
appear more complicated, or at least less helpful, than mod_python as
far as getting started. This is because mod_python is actually two
parts. These parts are the low level web server interface, akin to
WSGI level, and its higher level handlers. The mod_wsgi package
doesn't have the higher level handlers as expected you would use any
WSGI capable package for that.

As others have said, perhaps start out with Python 2.X for now if you
are just getting into this. This is because little work has been done
yet on getting any of the Python web frameworks/toolkits running on
Python 3.0 even if mod_wsgi is already ready (subversion copy) to host
them on Apache.

Graham