On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:20:51 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: >> I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. >> >> (I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with >> JSP/servlets/Java before.) >> >> Almost all pages on the site will share some common (and >> static) html, however, they'll also have dynamic aspects. >> I'm guessing that the common way to build sites like this >> is to have every page (which contains active content) be >> generated by a cgi script, but also have some text files >> hanging around containing incomplete html fragments which >> you read and paste-in as-needed (I'm thinking: >> header.html.txt, footer.html.txt, and so on). >> >> Is that how it's usually done? If not, what *is* the >> usual way of handling this? > > The basic idea is correct - but there are sooo many other people that > had the same problem, and thus they creted web-framworks like e.g. > CherryPy or Django or... and then there is ZOPE. Search this group for > webframeworks, and you might get more answers than you wanted :) > > Diez
Thanks Diez. Glad to hear I'm on the right track. :) >From poking around, it looks to me like these Python web frameworks are to Python as JSP is to Java. I really don't want to use a "templating language" (a la JSP) -- I was hoping to just stick with straight Python and then also html + css. Though I've heard good things about CherryPy. Looks like mod_python also comes with it's own solution too: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2004/02/26/python_server_pages.html -- --- if contacting via email, remove zees --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
