Walter Burleigh wrote: > Erik Johnson wrote: > >> There are a lot of things about PHP I was not too keen on and hence >> why >> my company is primarily doing Python these days, but one thing I was quite >> impressed with was the ease with which it provided session >> functionality... > > Like you I think it is a big plus of PHP as a beginner's web development > tool that it provides session management out of the box. It would certainly > make python more attractive for beginners if they could use session > management out of the box, too. (I know that there are lots of web > development frameworks, but they are to be too difficult to learn, if you > are new to web development). > > There is no module for session management in the python standard library. > But there are lots of python frameworks that would do this job well (my > favorite: cherrypy). If you think that a whole framework would be overkill, > you either could try to recylce the session part of an existing framework, > or you could write a module for yourself. > > I have written a module which is quite similar to the php session > management, except for that it does no url rewriting when cookies are not > allowed. If you are interested, I will mail you a copy.
If you need session management, and do not want a complicated web app framework, check out pso: http://pso.sf.net Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
