On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:22:07 GMT John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how complicated it might be to install > Python on my server so I can use it for web apps? Is it a > one-time process, or something to maintain?
Installing Python on a server is really, really easy. At least it is if you have root privileges and a reasonably well-known platform to install on. *USING* the Python installation for web applications is a bit more complicated -- you have many choices about how to do that. For my money, the easy way if you are mostly wanting to make web applications is to use Zope. It has a big up-front learning curve, but once you get to know it, maintaining scripts becomes trivially easy to do. If you have other constraints on your server, or you really just want a static site with a few dynamic elements, you might be better served with a lighter-weight package than Zope, and there's maybe a dozen different ones to choose from. Easier to learn, but probably more work in the long run if you have to do a lot of script work on your site. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
