On Oct 29, 3:00 am, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > CSharpner <csharp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here's what I /want/ to do, but don't know where to begin: > > Welcome to the fun :) > > > - Write web services in Python (I've done plenty of this in .NET, > > BTW). > > I'm a big fan of CherryPy:http://www.cherrypy.org/ > > It's very straightforward and easy to get into. > > > - Write plain DLLs (is that even an option in Python (I told you I was > > a newb to Python, didn't I? :)) > > I'd recommend Cython:http://www.cython.org/ > > It allows you to write dlls in (a subset of) Python that are converted > to and compiled in C. > > > - Write a web app (HTML front end, Python web services called from > > JavaScript). > > - Write a plain old web app with Python (no web services or Ajax, just > > plain HTML & Python). > > Again, CherryPy, or depending on your needs one of the many, many web > frameworks; I'm partial to Turbogears, but Django seems to be the most > popular. > > For a good overview of what's out > there:http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks > > > - Is it possible to create a Windows client desktop GUI app with > > Python? How? How 'bout a Linux GUI app? > > Python includes a wrapper around Tcl/Tk, which many consider to be > kinda ugly by modern standards, but is cross platform and part of the > stdlib (it's not always included with *nix distros by default but then > it's a lot easier to make that happen during install under most > package managers). PyQT, PyGtk and wxPython all have their active > proponents. > > There are plenty of GUI libs out > there:http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming > > However, if you're already comfortable with HTML/CSS, I'd recommend > taking a look at Pyjamas, which started as a port of the Google Web > Toolkit, taking Python code and compiling it into javascript. The > associated project, Pyjamas-Desktop, is a webkit-based desktop client/ > widget set; so ideally you only have to write one UI and it'll run > both on the web & the desktop. > > Pyjamas:http://pyjs.org/ > Pyjamas-Desktop:http://pyjd.sourceforge.net/ > > > And finally, I'm not completely committed to using Windows to host my > > development either. I'm willing to use Linux too (but would prefer > > Windows... at least to get started, until I'm comfortable enough with > > Python). > > Google App Engine allows you to host our app on Google servers, with a > very generous free quota:http://code.google.com/appengine/ > > It supports Django and several other of the web frameworks. It's worth > noting that it uses the non-relational BigTable at the backend, which > seems to cause a lot of grief to relationally-trained minds :) > > Hopefully something in here is enlightening :)
Thanks! Lots of good stuff in there. I think that's plenty to get me started. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
