[BangPypers] Python Web development collaterals...

[Pradeep Gowda]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Banibrata Dutta wrote:

> On your Windows plaf. you could start by installing ActivePython  
> from ActiveState website....
> It comes with SQLlite (Python2.6's default packaging)... and should  
> be good enough to get you going for some basic DB apps.
> You could download/install Django as well... for some web-framework  
> development.
>
> However if you insist on mysql and CGI based programming, you could  
> download the MySQL windows installer and install it, and the Python  
> bindings for Mysql.
>
> These are advice from a non-practising ex-programmer :) so details  
> might be a bit fuzzy.
>
>
> On 7/24/08, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the easiest way to start experimenting with Python  
> offerings for Web development on a Windows platform?
>
> What things will I need to get my self going for displaying a  
> simple webpage using Python based database access (say MySql)?
>
> Could somebody list the things (softwares) required? point me to a  
> good web development tutorial...
>
> Would like to start with simple CGI and then go on to Web 2.0 kind  
> of path...


 From a practicing web-programmer -- the better way to start web  
programming today is web.py http://webpy.org
Its close enough to CGI in the sense that you don't have to  
understand frameworks, MVC, MTV (as in Django), at the same
time you don't have to  reinvent the wheel for db handling,  
templating, handling requests, sessions etc.

Once you grok "web programming", look around. The choices are  
endless.. After all we are pythonistas.
we don't have religions masquerading as web frameworks.

Saying Hello world in web.py is as simple as:
-------------------
import web

   urls = (
       '/(.*)', 'hello'
   )

   class hello:
       def GET(self):
               print 'Hello world!'

   if __name__ == "__main__": web.run(urls, globals())
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Pradeep Kishore Gowda
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