[Tutor] Leaving PHP for Python

[Don Jennings]

Welcome! I suggest you take a look at django [1]. You'll find that it
has documentation [2] and an active developer community [3]. Of
course, for your questions about learning python, you've already found
a very helpful community : >)

Take care,
Don

[1]  http://www.djangoproject.com/
[2] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
[3] http://www.djangoproject.com/community/

On 11/25/08, Jason DeBord <jasdebord at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> This is my first message on the mailing list. I am excited to get started
> developing content / backend for the web with Python.
>
> I have a background in PHP, but am convinced that Python is a better, more
> powerful language.
>
> I am on a Windows XP machine and I have been using XAMPP for server, php,
> mysql...
>
> I installed Python 2.5 and mod_python successfully. I can serve pages with
> .py extension to http://localhost .
>
> The following for example:
>
> from mod_python import apache
>
> def handler(req):
>     req.write("Hello World!")
>     return apache.OK
>
> Frankly, I don't understand what is going on in the above. This is a bit
> different compared to what I am used to.
>
> So, my question, would you all please point me to some introductory
> resources, tutorials, books, that focus on Python programming for the web? I
> am eventually going to interface with some web services, notably Amazon Web
> Services. Also, I'd like to write some server side scripts to serve as a
> backend to some Adobe AIR apps.
>
> Any and all advice is extremely appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jason
>