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For a rake alternative have a look at aap http://www.a-a-p.org/ It won't be a drop in replacement but, does provide similiar functionality ( i have used to drive delphi, visualstudio, borland c and bunch of other stuff build scripts to make a complete windows desktop app) and automagically build and deploy 60 custom plone sites - in fact all sorts of things. There are plenty of python web frameworks, some have quite different approaches, what suits you will depend very much on your own bias, interest. T On Apr 14, 3:01 pm, blahemailb...@gmail.com wrote: > Although I'm not 100% new to Python, most of my experience using high- > level languages is with Ruby. I had a job doing Rails web development > a little ways back and I really enjoyed it. At my current workplace > though, we're looking at using Python and I'm trying to get back into > the Python "groove" as it were. > > I've got plenty of materials to get me up to speed on the mechanics of > the language, but I was wondering about the equivalent of some tools I > was used to using in Ruby. If there's not anything that's a one-to-one > equivalent I totally understand, I'm just looking for some pointers > here to get me started. :) > > 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, > and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make > replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with > Python itself. Is there anything like a Python build tool? (Or do I > even need something like that? I haven't worked with any large Python > systems, just little things here and there.) > > 2) Gems - I've seen a bit about Eggs, but they don't seem to have > anywhere near the official status gems do for Ruby. Are there any > "package management" things like this for Python, or do you usually > just grab the code you need as-is? > > 3) Web frameworks - yeah, I realize there are tons of these, but are > TurboGears, Django, and Zope still the big ones? I've seen a lot about > Pylons, is that a separate framework or is it a ... well, frame that > other things are built on? (TG seems to be related to Pylons at a > glance?) > > 4) Unit Test frameworks - If there's a behavioral test suite like > RSpec that's be awesome, but I'd be happy to settle for a good, solid > unit testing system. > > Thanks for any advice! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
