Python is definitely suitable for that sort of task. Django is good for this sort of thing, but I’d also like to mention using Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org), especially if you are a beginner. I use it for some of my work, and you could potentially get your project up and running that much quicker since it is a fairly light-weight web framework. The only thing is you’ll be missing out on some of the more convenient features that Django introduces.
On Jan 30, 2014, at 8:53 PM, britt.jonatha...@gmail.com wrote: > First off I wanted to apologize for the lack of specificity in my subject > title. I am a relative newbie to programming and need some advice. I tried > StackOverflow but was sort of turned away for not having code in my post. > > I have been assigned by an internship with my university's athletic > department, to create a statistics website to be used by sports media during > games. What this means is that the statistics are generated by a stats > computer into an XML file and I am wanting to parse this XML file and place > it on the web quickly. Not necessarily in real-time but in a matter of a > couple of seconds. I'd like to make a clean, simple website to start off with > that displays these statistics. > > I've been playing around with Javascript and jQuery and as a beginning > programmer have really been in over my head. What I want to do is start > completely over and actually try to learn a language before diving in. > > My question is, would Python be a suitable language for developing a website > / web application that performs these tasks? I've been researching Python and > it is the language I am most interested in learning. I've been messing around > with IDLE and have really enjoyed the syntax. I've also been reading about > Django / Tornado etc. Thank you all so much for your time. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
