[Web-SIG] A Python Web Application Package and Format

[Eric Larson]

On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I stumbled across https://apphosted.com as more web application package and format 'prior art'. It appears to be an App Engine competitor. According to their API documentation, their deployment format is an archive containing a single directory with your WSGI program and a metro.config. They put the database configuration in a settings.py written into the application's root with defined DB_URI, etc.
> > 
> There's something that bothers me about using settings.py, though I guess it's not that different from a YAML file or whatever, though with a cleverness danger.  Conveniently you could do sys.modules['settings'] = new.module('settings') and avoid ever making a real file.
> 
I would think something like YAML would be better simply b/c it might fit in more easily with an implementation that may not use Python. A dashboard app might want to loop through a bunch of sandboxes and read the listening ports/hosts for example to help find what it needs to monitor. The converse of course is that an environment could prescribe something like a port, host, database string, etc. by updating the YAML file. Again, by using something like YAML, whatever is provisioning the environment doesn't necessarily need to be written in Python.

Eric

> Using the name "settings" *specifically* is likely to cause name clashes with existing Django applications.
> 
>  Ian
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