Andy Robinson wrote: > CGI is only longwinded if you do it all from scratch; there > are many nice frameworks and paradigms to give you a head start. > > I have been playing with Django (www.djangoproject.com) and it's > beautiful. You essentially declare the database schema in the > Python model, and you get a very nice web interface for add/edit/delete > stuff autogenerated for you. Be prepared to spend half a day > setting up though. > > The other well-documented approach at the moment is Turbogears > which includes CherryPy for the web app and SQLObject for > database management. Nothing 'for free' but a very clean > approach.
Cheers Andy, Just the sort of advice I am looking for. I have just written a Sage Line 100 front-end so engineers can enter jobs on a GPRS PDA. It works wonderfully but it's hard adding extra functionality because it's all raw python and cgi. If I change the database I have to troll the whole app! I will go and take a read now ty... Sim _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk