OOMMEN KM <oomme...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi All, > > I would like to know which technology should I use for developing a > web based application. The application will have to handle a huge > amount of data and we are using MySQL. Will mod_python a good option > for the development of this application? Or I need to choose some > frame works? [...]
One of the areas in the Python world where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." is violated horribly is web frameworks. There are tons of them out there each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Partisans will probably direct you towards the one they like the best and use but at the end of the day, you're going to have to evaluate a bunch of them and decide. Here are some notes on my experiences. Django - Very widely used and with a large community and 3rd party plugins. Easy to get something done since many "standard" things already have plugins written for them. The Pinax framework (as far as I know) is Django + a lot of useful apps (in the Django sense) bundled together to make life easy. The downsides is that it suffers from the NIH syndrome[1] and you have to buy into it's own way of doing things if you want to use it. Flask - Young and lightweight. Flexible with components (you can mix and match parts). Very well documented, good community. There's a bunch of offshoots of Zope (which was one of the earliest successfuly Python projects) like Grok, web2py etc. Haven't used any of them. I don't know anything about Pyramid and Pylons. You should use a framework rather than code up everything yourself since they take care of a lot of "standard" things for you (e.g user authentication etc.). After you're done with your app, you need to deploy it and that's where things like mod_wsgi[2], gunicorn etc. come into the picture. You need to pick one of these and put your app in the wild. I'm sorry if you're looking for a clear single answer. There isn't one and you've got your work cut out for you if you're going to do web development. Footnotes: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here [2] mod_python was declared dead by Graham Dumpleton (the author) and he recommended that people start using mod_wsgi instead. -- Bones: "The man's DEAD, Jim!" _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
