On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Aseem Bansal <asmbans...@gmail.com> wrote: > @vikash agrawal > > About GUI I discussed it at > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!starred/comp.lang.python/M-Dy2pyWRfM and I > am thinking about using PySide 1.2 for clients of chat system. I think I'll > need downloadable clients if I want to make something like google talk. Then > I'll need to implement server side programming also. I think google app > engine would be suitable for this as it is going to be always online.
Hrm. Rather than pointing people to Google Groups, which a number here (and not unreasonably) detest, you may want to link to the python-list archive: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-July/thread.html#651359 > About using web frameworks, in the above scenario when there isn't an online > website for chat would I need web frameworks? I am confused about this. Can > server side programming be done in Python or by using a web framework only? You can certainly do your server-side programming directly in Python; in fact, I recommend it for this task. There's no reason to use HTTP, much less a web framework (which usually consists of a structured way to build HTML pages, plus a bunch of routing and stuff, none of which you need). All you need is a simple structure for separating one message from another. I would recommend either going MUD/TELNET style and ending each message with a newline, or prefixing each message with its length in octets. Both ways work very nicely; newline-termination allows you to use a MUD client for debugging, which I find very convenient (full disclosure: I am the author of multiple MUD clients, including one that's zero-dollar and another that's free). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
