John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John J. Lee wrote: > > John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > >> Python, on the other hand, is uphill all the way. Constant trouble > >>with version issues, especially with C components called from Python. > >>MySQLdb, M2Crypto, SSL - they all have platform/version > >>incompatibility problems. I just spent three days making M2Crypto > >>work on a new Linux server with a different Red Hat version. > >>Neither Python's packaging tools nor the platform's packaging > >>tools deal adequately with these issues. > > [...] > > You haven't been using mod_python, by any chance? > > John > > No, haven't started to deal with that yet. Still using > CGI. Not sure whether to use mod_python or fastcgi for the > small requests where the Python load time swamps the time > to do one SQL select and reply. Comments?
mod_python relies on an unsupported feature of Python, namedly multiple interpreters --> risk of more pain with C extensions. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
