I would definitely recommend Django as a framework - though the choice of framework wouldn't really affect your use of AJAX. And using AJAX actually doesn't require learning a whole lot of javascript stuff - using something like the Prototype JS library (prototypejs.org) takes care of all the details.
As for making async apps, AJAX is the popular and simplest choice. Gears/Adobe Air/MS Silverlight I believe involve significantly more work. Brian On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to create a web-based tool for risk management. The tool > actually currently exists, but it was programmed in about 1998 using > old VB, etc, and we are updating it & moving it to the web. Basically, > as a first step, i'd like to create a basic web site that takes user > input, gets data from MySQL (i might pickle it, not yet sure) and then > runs some numpy routines & outputs the results. This will give us a > platform to develop the backend. My intermediate goal is to have an > asynchronous site in which as users adjust settings, the computations > are run & graphs updated. (the computations are pretty simple, btw). > My fantasy goal would be to combine that w/ google gears so the users > could use it online or offline, but that's probably just fantasy. > > So, here are my constraints: I know Python & HTML (and lots of other > non-germane languages) but I don't know any javascript or ruby or XML. > What is the lowest cost path from here to there? I have been totally > out of the loop for this whole web 2.0 thing (I'm an economics > professor). Will it be possible for me to put together an async site > with only python? (I hesitate to use the term AJAX, b/c its unclear to > me how generic it is--do all async sites use javascript? can someone > clarify this?) If so, does it make sense to go ahead and start trying > to learn Turbogears or Pylons? Will they be able to create async > sites? Is there an easier way to do it? (Easy defined as me not having > to learn a 7th programming language) I have looked at Spyce, and that > seems an easy way to do the basic (step 1) site, but its not at all > clear that I can do async with it. CherryPy looks like it has a > steeper learning curve, but it also appears that the route to async is > clearer. > > I know where I want to go, and I know what I can do now. I don't mind > getting deeper into Python, but I'd love not to have to learn a bunch > of other languages if I can avoid it. Any thoughts/comments? > > TIA, > Matt. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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