Let me explain my situation a bit. I've been contracted to develop an ecommerce site. It's nothing too huge but requires a lot of custom development that's not typical for your run of the mill webstore. I've got about three weeks to get the project delivered and I've written quite a bit of code already.
I'd like to find some sort of tool to generate some of the repetative bits like data management (think phpMyAdmin but for Python) so I don't have to write a stupid mangement script for every single module (users, customers, inventory, etc). I know there's tools out there that will do this for ASP code with a SQL server backend, but I haven't seen anything for Python outside of the web application frameworks. Ideally, I'd like something like Ruby on Rails that would provide scaffolding support so I can bootstrap the system, so to speak. I've looked at Django, but the client is only running Apache 1.x and Python 2.3. I've given Turbo Gears a try, but couldn't get SQLObject to run (threw an error that I didn't have time to struggle with). So basically I need something with low dependencies, easy to develop in, and releatively easy to deploy. Anyone have any recommendations? I really need something on which I can ramp up quickly to get this project out of the door fast. I'm also a framework newbie, so I know there's a learning curve. Any input is appreciated, thank you. - james -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
