[Tutor] Perfect Python web stack?

[Dave Kuhlman]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:09:02AM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> OkaMthembo wrote:
> > Ok pythonistas!
> > 
> > Please help me to decide. I might have asked some of you before, so 
> > please bear with me.
> > 
> > I want to build a database driven python web app and i need to decide, 
> > so please vote on the best components (im developing on XP SP2):
> > 
> > 1) MySQL vs PostGRES
> > 2) Lighttpd + FastCGI vs Apache + mod_python
> > 3) Pylons + Cheetah + Kid/Mochikit/Dojo vs Django/Turbogears
> 
> All of these have their proponents. If you search comp.lang.python you 
> will find many discussions. Start here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/
> 

For the Web part of the stack, here is another good starting point:

    http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

I'm currently learning Pylons.  The tutorials for Pylons discuss
two object-relational mappers for Python: SQLObject and SQLAlchemy. 
If you want to view your database from a higher, more abstract
level, you might want to look at them, too.  Here are some database
references:

    http://wiki.python.org/moin/DatabaseInterfaces
    http://www.python.org/doc/topics/database/
    http://www.python.org/doc/topics/database/modules/
    http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
    http://www.sqlobject.org/

Dave

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