[Tutor] Web framework: looking for python-tutor's angle.

[Mal Wanstall]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mac Ryan<quasipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of months ago I took the time to read a few articles on python
> web application frameworks and I got the impression that the two most
> mature and active projects are Zope and Django.
>
> Zope vs. Django hits 879.000 pages on google but much of the debate - or
> at least this is my impression - falls into the class "vi vs. emacs" or
> "gtk vs. qt" with many people singling out a single characteristics that
> for them is THE characteristic making one framework better than the
> other.
>
> This [1] graph seems to corroborate my final impression (i.e. that
> django is the way to go). Yet, I would be very interested in hearing
> what the members of this list think, as I particularly enjoy the
> "learner centered" approach that most of the people seems to have here.
>
> I believe my needs are quite ordinary: my customers are typically small
> businesses needing to process their data on a single server, sometime
> exposing part of the application as front-end to the customers (hence
> easy and flexible theming is important). I would definitively be happy
> to sacrifice some functionality in exchange for a leaner and cleaner
> design (i.e. more modular, elegant and intuitive), though.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time,
> Mac.
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=python+zope%2C+python+django
>
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Your needs definitely favour Django. The learning curve is so much
shallower for Django and it's very simple to theme not to mention a
much more beginner-tolerant community IMHO.

-Mal W