If you want to be adventurous, you can also look at Werkzeug (a collection of WSGI utilities) and choose whatever ORM (SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, etc) and template system (Jinja, Mako, etc) you want.
Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
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Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#22I like Pylons. I've used it for both big sites (http://www.bittorrent.com/) and small ones (http://codepad.org/), and it's been pretty good for both.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#23If you want to be adventurous, you can also look at Werkzeug (a collection of WSGI utilities) and choose whatever ORM (SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, etc) and template system (Jinja, Mako, etc) you want.
Pylons is also WSGI-based, and lets you use whatever ORM and templating components you want (although Mako is the default for templating).
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#24django. this isn't an even reasonable question to be asking.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#25I hate the name, but I've been very happy with cherrypy. Some things seemed too big (Django, Turbogears) and I liked how cherrypy managed routing and config details more than I liked pylon's implementation.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#26django. this isn't an even reasonable question to be asking.
It's reasonable to try to narrow the landscape down. There's a lot of information out there.
Although I agree, Django is really your best choice here.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#27I personally like web.py: PROS: * Light and fast, * Really flexible, * Really easy to learn, * Easy to install, * Nice error reports (mostly copied from Django), * No database ORM CONS: * No database ORM, just some helper functions: insert(...), update(...), select(...), etc. You must also build the DB tables by yourself. * Limited documentation.
I stopped using web.py after I had to correct Aaron when he recommended a 'session' implementation that had a massive gaping security hole. http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_thread/thread/2f... If he couldn't spot that when he posted, I don't trust him to spot any other problems with web.py
He is doing a good job so far. Anyway, I believe he isn't the only developer of web.py anymore.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#28django.
Could you explain why you would use django over the others? Does pylons have too much magic? I've never used django and am curious if you have used the other frameworks.
Re: Ask Hacker News: What Python web framework should I use?
#29I personally like web.py: PROS: * Light and fast, * Really flexible, * Really easy to learn, * Easy to install, * Nice error reports (mostly copied from Django), * No database ORM CONS: * No database ORM, just some helper functions: insert(...), update(...), select(...), etc. You must also build the DB tables by yourself. * Limited documentation.
Limited Documentation = really almost non-existent, except few samples, and few lines here and there in their website.
I am not sure it is by laziness, or it is purposely done to scare n00bs away from it.
It's a pitty when somebody takes the time to built a decent and useful framework, but just hinders its adoption, by not going the extra mile and providing good documentation.
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#30Just as a warning. Its not listed here, but stay away from Zope3/Plone for a while :).
Why, may I ask?
I'm contemplating to skip Zope3 to learn Plone. I'm also tinkering with the idea of purchasing Plone 3 book by Martin Aspelli. I heard the book is good and it gives you enough information about Zope3 to learn Plone.