I guess I'm a little confused, and this certainly comes from not yet having tried to do anything with Python on a web server.
I remarked once to a Python programmer that it appeared to me that if I had a web page that called a Python program, that the server would: 1. Load Python 2. Run the program 3. Unload Python Then the next time it has to serve up that page, it would have to repeat the process. This seems inefficient, and it would slow the site down. The programmer confirmed this. He said that's why I should use mod_python. It stays resident. Is this advice accurate? Are there other things to consider? Isn't there just some way (short of running something like Zope) that would keep Python resident in the server's RAM? This is a shared server, so the web host probably doesn't like stuff sitting around in RAM. Right now, I only need small programs to run. E.g., I'm thinking of embedding a Live Journal blog in my web page. Live Journal gives you several ways of doing this, one of which is three lines of Python code. Ron Britton (This email address will be deleted in a couple of days, once it starts receiving spam from this posting. Please reply to the group!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
