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[Chris Warrick]

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On 25 December 2015 at 05:02, Aaron Christensen
<aaron.christensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thank you for your response and information.  I enjoy doing Python on my
> free time so when I get closer to some kind of web application, then I can
> provide more information.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction so far.  I will replace any
> shelve usage with the database.  I also started looking at WSGI servers and
> just found a great deal of information on fullstackpython.com.

Full Stack Python is a good resource, which teaches many things
considered best practices in the Python web world (I personally
recommend uWSGI instead of Gunicorn, but that’s mainly just my
preference)

> I have some experience in PHP (which is why I mentioned it).  I am
> unfamiliar with Django, Flask, or Pyramid.  I am looking into Django, but am
> a little hesitant because of all the time I spent learning PHP.

I’m sorry, but you wasted your time. PHP is an awful language with
multiple problems and bad design decisions. Here’s some laughing
stock:

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
http://reddit.com/r/lolphp
http://phpsadness.com/

On the other hand, Python web frameworks are really fun and easy to
learn, even though their general design is a bit different from PHP’s:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/intro/tutorial01/
http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/

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