On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, S.Selvam <s.selvams...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a case where my application needs to run as a standalone application > and also allow web based access.
> What could the best python framework to implement it. well, the total number of options available is about err... one, possibly two. one is pyjamas, the other is _maybe_ appcelerator. pyjamas has a python-to-javascript compiler and also has pyjamas-desktop which is a bit of a cheat because it uses the exact same engines that the major web browsers do, but rather than getting all the lovely crud that you get with the web browser, you get err a window, and that's it: no back buttons, url bar, menu bar, nothing - it's all up to you, exactly as it is with pygtk2, pyqt4 or any other desktop-based UI widget engine. pyjd is also a bit of a cheat because although the application is really really python not javascript, you still have to split the app along MVC lines and still have to use AJAX (XMLHttpRequest) just as you would with the web version, but this time from python not from javascript. illustrated here: http://lkcl.net/pyjamas.desktop.diagram.html http://lkcl.net/pyjamas.diagram.html this split actually has significant advantages, one of which is that heavy back-end processing and anything else that takes an inordinate amount of time can be done back-end web server end, and, given that you're forced to use AJAX to communicate with that, you _have_ to design the UI front-end as asynchronous. try to avoid using threads: all three of the desktop web engines are a bit sensitive about allowing access to their internal data structures whilst other threads are also doing the same thing: browser engines all all designed to operate around a single-threaded javascript engine, and the locking functions are all typically hidden inside internal APIs. so, you play by the rules, and everything stays hunky-dory. so - yeah: http://pyjs.org other than that: try looking at appcelerator, i understand that you can get IronPython to run in it, or some-such, on windows. don't know too many details. l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
