Joe T. wrote: > Hello group, I'm new to Python and have a couple of beginner questions that > I'm hoping someone can answer. > > 1. Is python something that you would recommend using for server side web > programming?
Definitively yes. > Something like C# or Java? Far better IMHO. > If so, are there any resources > that you could point me to that would help me with server side python > programming for dynamic html data? Most of the tutorials that I see deal > with the Shell but I'd like to know more about using Python for database > querying and printing database data on an html page as I would with .net's > C# or Java. If your need is to build a web frontend for relational datas, have a look at Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/ Else, you have a huge choice of web programming solutions in Python, the most known being Zope, Twisted/Nevow and CherryPy (but there are many others....). > 2. I know there's a Jpython but what use would I get from using Python with > Java? If I'm already familiar with Java programming why would I want to use > Python with Java? Because Python is much more usable than Java ?-) But unless you need to work in a Java environnement, better stick to CPython. -- bruno desthuilliers ruby -e "print '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@').collect{|p| p.split('.').collect{|w| w.reverse}.join('.')}.join('@')" python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
