On 10/29/08, Zix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am a newbie to python and trying to get a hang of some of its > advanced features through an application I am building. Basically, I'd > like to build a weather forecasting web service. The clients should be > able to query the service with a location and date and get back the > weather forecast. > > After reading a lot on the topic I've settled on the following: > * not using any python frameworks (Django, pylons etc) > * exposing the service through an XMLRPC API using Python 2.4.3 > (that's the python version on CentOS 5.2)
Why did you decide to "expose" a web service through xmlrpc instead of actually exposing it by using a restful web service ? The links pointed by the previous email should help you, but well, I'm still surprised on this decision specially because you said you read a lot about this topic. > * using mod_wsgi ( http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ ) instead of > mod_python > > So far, I've just created the database design and been focusing on > that. But now I realize I've been procrastinating because I am not > sure how to really go about implementing this (the docs on xml rpc > python module are especially sparse). Please advice. > > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
