Good question. web2py and py4web share a lot of libraries and their syntax is very similar. Both will be maintained. web2py was born in 2007 and it is mostly for Python 2 although it now works well with python 3.
As a rule of thumb, if you are porting a Python 2 project to Python 3, use web2py. If you are starting from scratch, use py4web. py4web is ~20x faster. Code is much easier to read. They are both solid for production (except none works with py3.8 but we are fixing that) They share pydal, templates, multi-app structure, ticket system. The request object and routing mechanism is different and py4web uses the bottlepy ones. They both have an internationalization/pluralization system and the py4web one is better but it lacks a UI (building one would be a good 1 day project). They both have Auth but they are incompatible. The py4web is more modular but less tested. (fixing those bugs is a priority, but need testers) web2py has SQLFORM, py4web has py4web.utils.form.Form. They are pretty much equivalent but the latter does not support fields of type list:* (+) web2py has SQLFORM.grid and SQLFORM.smartgrid, py4web has Vue component <mtable> They are pretty much equivalent but the latter does not support fields of type list:* (+) (+) indicates things that are missing but we have no plan to add them. Th world is moving to single page apps (vue, angular, react, etc.) and with py4web we wanted to move away from generating complex HTML serverside because it does not scale to complex projects. If you need tables and complex interfaces, you should implement them in vue/angular/react/etc. So we have no plans to add that functionality. What is considered good practice has changed. Massimo On Thursday, 12 December 2019 06:17:05 UTC-8, icodk wrote: > > Should I use Web2py or py4web for a brand new project ? > What is still missing from py4web ? > Can I debug with pycharm ? > I need all the great authentication I got with web2py : Registration,pass > change, groups mail, etc. > smartgreed will be very nice to have or similar. > Stability ? > Can it be deployed with nginx and pg ? > Thanks > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/2197d0bf-08aa-4f94-9826-423f9888600a%40googlegroups.com.
