Moving to Python for web

[Andreas Ecaz]

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:08:52 PM UTC+2, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM,  <Ecaz> wrote:
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> > So, I have been working in PHP for several years but I want to learn something new. That something new is Python. But since I'm a web developer I want to build stuff for the web.
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> > I don't want to use Django because it's too bloated, it seem to do everything for you. I don't like that. I want to do the "plumbing". But at the same time I have no idea how I would write something that could handle cookies, sessions, post, get etc etc; so I assume I have to use some kind of web framework.
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> > So, can you recommend a minimal web framework that still allows me to write in Python? Furthermore, do I even need one? I am currently running NGINX and I have UWSGI installed. I'm just worried about how I would handle form submissions, get requests and sessions/cookies.
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> I like django, but you may want to google "python micro web framework"
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> There are a handful with some following so that there are communities,
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> As to get/cookies/sessions check out the requests module (3rd party -
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> well received) http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
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> Joel Goldstick
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I've looked at Flask, Bottle and Web.py. I quite like the look of Bottle. I'll keep looking for some other microframeworks, maybe I can find something else that interests me.

Thank you.