On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Gilles <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: > I have a couple more questions: > > 1. Today what is the recommended way to connect a long-running Python > web application with a web server running in the front? FastCGI? WSGI? > Other? > > 2. Which solid web server is recommended to connect to Python web > applications in the back? > > 3. What Python web framework would you recommend to get started, and > possibly more heavy duty framework in case I need something bigger > later?
There are quite a few Python web frameworks, but I've never used any. What I have done, though, is subclass BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler, override do_GET(self), and run a core loop with a single line of code (well, there's a little more so the server can be halted cleanly with Ctrl-C, but close enough). And it runs beautifully on Windows and Linux, and would probably run on any other platform with a Python, if anyone felt like trying.it. However, there are times when you need a little more organization, and I don't know how easy it is to minimize downtime when you need to update code (with this particular example, I just restart it and have a couple of minutes' outage, which isn't an issue). For high-availability servers, I can't speak for Python, as I've never done that there; but it seems likely that there's good facilities. My personal preference is Pike, but that's off-topic for this list. :) But the simple answer for simple tasks is: Don't bother with frameworks, run an HTTP server. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
