On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00:17 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>Certainly there are Python equivalents (mod_python, mod_wsgi, etc.)
>which can run in effectively the same way as mod_php, and they could be
>configured to run an fcgi frontend script, I presume. There's always a
>certain confusion here becaus
On 26/10/2012 10:58, Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:24:16 +0100, Tim Golden
> wrote:
>>> But actually, I didn't mean one-shot scripts, where the Python
>>> interpreter + script must be loaded each time, but rather: If I leave
>>> a Python running in an endless loop, why not just use either
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:24:16 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>> But actually, I didn't mean one-shot scripts, where the Python
>> interpreter + script must be loaded each time, but rather: If I leave
>> a Python running in an endless loop, why not just use either CGI or
>> some other basic way to call th
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:53:11 -0400, David Hutto
wrote:
>>> OTOH, Python web scripts can be written as long-running scripts: In
>>> this case, what is the added-value of using FastCGI? Why can't the
>>> web server simply call the Python script directly, just like CGI?
>
>The server should call a th
On 25/10/2012 13:40, Gilles wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:03:14 +0100, Tim Golden
> wrote:
>> (Your question is a little confused at the end. I'm choosing to
>> understand: why can't we just run Python one-shot, like CGI? The likely
>> alternative meaning is: why can't the incoming request be ro
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 25/10/2012 12:45, Gilles wrote:
>> I'd like to check something about running Python web applications.
>>
>> Generally speaking, the reason scripts run faster when called
>> through FastCGI or the mod_* modules, is because the interpreter is
>
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:03:14 +0100, Tim Golden
wrote:
>(Your question is a little confused at the end. I'm choosing to
>understand: why can't we just run Python one-shot, like CGI? The likely
>alternative meaning is: why can't the incoming request be routed to an
>already-running Python program --
On 25/10/2012 12:45, Gilles wrote:
> I'd like to check something about running Python web applications.
>
> Generally speaking, the reason scripts run faster when called
> through FastCGI or the mod_* modules, is because the interpreter is
> already up and running. But when running PHP scripts, th
