In a message of Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:53:09 -0800, bSneddon writes: >I know there are a plethora of web frameworks out there for Python and to be serious about website developement I should learn on like Django. Really thought, I just want to dabble and do some easy stuff. Does anyone have any suggestons? I have a a website hosted with a hosting company who is supposed to have python support but hard to know what they have installed on there apache server. I have seen a few examples out there but not too many.
There are lots of other choices than Django. see: https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks/ The big split is whether you want a large framework, like Django, which comes with all the batteries included, or a micro framework, like Flask and Bottle, which gives you more control and is a whole lot simpler. It is not the case that 'serious website developers use heavyweight systems like Django' --- lots and lots of serious developers use Flask or Bottle because Django makes you do it the Django way. Flask lets you do it however you like. Professionally, our company has designed a ton of websites and we use Flask nearly all of the time, and Pylons the rest of the time. If your brain is well-suited for Django, by all means use that, but if it is not, then do something else. I teach kids who are 9-12 years old, weekends. Hosting their own site to support pictures of their pets is a very common thing to want to do. I have translated this: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/tutorial.html into Swedish and we tend to get a website up and running in 3 weekends of thinking and coding. (This is with kids who already know Python. Learning enough python to do this takes longer, a whole lot longer if you only get to code on weekends -- but most of the kids who want to do this are also willing to write code on weekdays as well.) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
