Do I really need a web framework?

[Tim Delaney]

On 1 October 2013 05:57, <dufriz at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to set up a very simple website, and I need to know if it is
> necessary to use a web framework (e.g. Django) to do basic interactive
> operations such as receiving input from the user, looking up a database and
> returning some data to the user.
> I know that this is exactly the purpose of web frameworks, and that they
> work fine.
> However, I read somewhere that for small projects such operations can be
> managed without a web framework, just by using Python with mod_python or
> with the CGI module. Is this correct?
>
> What do you suggest, keeping in mind that I am a newbie and that my
> website project would be very simple and very small?
>

There is no *need* to use a web framework. But a web framework can make
things a lot easier for you.

Have a look at webapp2: http://webapp-improved.appspot.com/

Tim Delaney
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