Allow me to offer a dissenting view. I recently faced the task of finding a Python-based framework to use at work and tried several, including Django. I finally settled on using CherryPy with Kid. (Which is what TurboGears is doing, but with a lot of extra cruft thrown in. And btw, the TurboGears mailing list is great for tech support on CherryPy and Kid.)
On 7/21/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Specifically what I'm hoping Django will do for me > ========================================= > (1) Portable apps across projects architecture. From what I've read, > it sounds like a perfect fit for what I want to do. Is it really that > great? In CherryPy, every "directory" of the website is mapped to a class with its exposed methods being the "files" in that directory. It's a godsend as you can write any kind of functionality (shopping cart, blog, whatnot) into a class or two and plop it anywhere else. Very portable and versatile. Django is somewhat more flexible (as you can map any function to any path), but CherryPy's class/method way of mapping things suits me better. It just seems more logical. Whereas Django allows you to redefine logic if needed :P > (2) Stable deployment with mod_python instead of some wonky FastCGI > jalopy. Is it *really* stable -- enough for mission critical > production environment? How about memory footprint? Can I run 100+ > Django sites on a shared server and expect smooth sailing? CherryPy provides its own server by default, which according to the CherryPy website is very stable, mature, and fast (with raw speeds comparable to Apache) but I think it can be set up using mod_python. Because Apache is faster for serving static files, we have CherryPy on a soon-to-be-in-production site sitting behind mod_rewrite so that certain folders are served by Apache. > (3) I still get to keep most of what I love about Rails. Pure object- > oriented MVC (MTV) development stucture, free stuff like form > validation, code generation, pagination, input sanitization, etc. Is > it true? What will I miss most about Rails? If you want OO, then from what I've seen, CherryPy might be a much better choice. As for free stuff, then Django certainly does all that (except code generation) and TurboGears does all that, (except code generation) but CherryPy alone does not. You could use the form validation, input sanitizaion and other needed tidbits from TurboGears. If you want them. (I really didn't need them on our CherryPy system. I'm one of those people who likes to reinvent bikes for fun :P) > Sorry for the looong post. Any feedback at all would be very much > appreciated! Before anyone flames me, then I think Django is great. It's a lot of fun to develop with and it's certainly a very capable framework with a lot of interesting new features I hadn't seen before. But it just didn't "click" for me. CherryPy seemed more mature, more stable, more minimalistic, and certainly more in tune with my programming style. But hey, I'm no expert :) Elver --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
