On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Eric Frederich <eric.freder...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I wanted to create a new web application (RESTful) today with Python what > are my options given the following requirements. > > * Google Account authentication > * Facebook authentication > * Managed hosting (like Google App Engine or Heroku) but with the ability to > be self-hosted later down the road.
Plenty of combinations here. > I am familiar with Django (well I was a 3 years ago). > I have played a little with web.py and like the ideas there. 3 years is a long time, and a lot of stuff probably changed. I personally like Django and Flask, other people may suggest Pyramid. > I like the idea of using something like GAE but don't want to be locked in. So go with Heroku. GAE has many GAE-specific things, while on Heroku everything is standard and you can go self-hosted easily (just get a DB dump and a dump of your files). > Is Django the answer? Maybe. It depends on the size of your app and if you like Django. It’s subject to personal opinion. > I think you can run Django on GAE (and obviously you can self-host it). Yes, it works on GAE and Heroku just fine. > I see there is a Django REST framework. Is this a good framework? > Are there good Google and Facebook authentication extensions? That’s, again, subject to personal opinion, and I, for one, haven’t used any. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> | GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post http://asciiribbon.org | http://caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
