Victor Kryukov wrote: > Hello list, > > our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of > dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago. > And has stayed around to dog the developers, as so many quick fixes do ...
> Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write > everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team: > everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice > clean syntax etc. > Yes indeedy, that's our language! > Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid > stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools > that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years > behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The > main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not > the bugs in our tools. > Given that even Apache has bugs despite its venerable status I think you are setting your sights a little high here. > Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic, > scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is > a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was > used there. > Zope? Plone? Django? TurboGears? All are handling large volumes of data on a daily basis, and I wouldn't use either of them (but that's just a personal issue). > TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features > - probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't > satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even > reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want > something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py - > unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement > either, or so it seems. > > So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in > python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python + > Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very > well'. > Python CGI? mod_python is OK, but like all frameworks you have to be aware of its limitations. > And although http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ lists many big names > and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding > is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and > performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting > example - anybody knows more details about that? > Google use Python for all sorts of stuff. > Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome! > > Best Regards, > Victor. > I think you are chasing a chimera (and I wrote a *book* called "Python Web Programming"). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden ------------------ Asciimercial --------------------- Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag your way to fame!! holdenweb.blogspot.com squidoo.com/pythonology tagged items: del.icio.us/steve.holden/python All these services currently offer free registration! -------------- Thank You for Reading ---------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
