> Thanks for the longer explanation. With so many frameworks, I'd like > to know what benefits they offer as compared to writing an application > from scratch, and if they do offer obvious benefits, which one to pick
I am going to state up front that I have never tried any of the frameworks so take my recommendation with a *lot* of salt! :) I would recommend Django as it seems to scale up nicely and I know that it has an active community which can be a godsend for getting help as a "newbie". That being said it does have a bit of a learning curve compared to some of the lighter frameworks, but not so much of one as to counteract the advantage of scalability. Again, this is all based on opinions that I have read (and remember) and not on any facts. Maybe this article will help you http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/pillars-python-six-python-web-frameworks-compared-169442 The comments on /. should round out anything missing from the article (I hope) http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/08/10/2111203/six-python-web-frameworks-compared Ramit Ramit Prasad | JPMorgan Chase Investment Bank | Currencies Technology 712 Main Street | Houston, TX 77002 work phone: 713 - 216 - 5423 -- This email is confidential and subject to important disclaimers and conditions including on offers for the purchase or sale of securities, accuracy and completeness of information, viruses, confidentiality, legal privilege, and legal entity disclaimers, available at http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures/email. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
