koranthala wrote: > Hi, > Is server programming in Python procedure oriented or object > oriented? > I have this question because lately I am asked to make a medium > complex web program (extremely database oriented) using Django. When I > used to do application programs earlier (in Python itself), the whole > thing being object oriented came out easily in programming. So, I was > able to use different patterns etc for programming and the whole thing > was - quite fun to design and create. > But when I program in Django, since I just have to work on user > responses - everything else being taken care of by Django - only, the > complete coding has become procedure oriented. It is not kludgy or > anything, but it doesnt have the nice feeling that we get when we code > a proper object oriented program. > Is my coding in error here? This is infact my first web program, > so it might be the reason. What does other people find? Does web > server programming using web frameworks (Django, TurboGears etc) make > it procedure oriented? If I am in the wrong, it might be due to a > wrong design or mindset, and I would like to change it. > It's just that Django *seems* procedure-oriented because your views are written as functions. But they take request objects as arguments and return response objects as results, so the framework is object-oriented. Also each model is a class, and querysets eventually yield lists of instances.
I wouldn't worry too much until Django forces you to do somethign you really don't want to do ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
