As a newbie of sorts I started by trying out both Web2Py and Django at the same time. I found Web2Py to somehow be more elegant, and in fact liked the coding style in the source better that what I found in Django, or can say at least I preferred the structure and format of the code I saw.
The documentation at the time for both frameworks at the time was not that hot. There was the first edition Django book which was outdated and very frustrating to work with while Django was moving to another revision and there was not a Web2Py book out yet. But one thing Django had going for it was more books about it on the horizion, Addison Wesley's Python Web Development with Django was published while I was in the early stages of comparing Web2Py and Django and I bought it as soon as it was published. That book provided the needed clarity and overview I needed to continue. Also where I got cold feet with Web2Py was when it was time to apply the framework to a project with a legacy. The project twice before had been refactored/ ported to other platforms and frameworks. We had problems in the past with products that fell out of support or were hard to outsource expertise in. So in the end going with Django was more attractive at the bargain table with the non-programming persons involved with this project because of its larger mind-share, market-share. There was a need to error on the side of caution. If we would of had a senior Python programmer in-house perhaps the decision would of been different. In retrospect its impossible to say if the gotcha's would been greater with Django than Web2py. Anyhow the future though I still am keeping Web2Py in mind. In my opinion frameworks should be considered on a project by project basis and Web2Py could be better than Django in some situations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
