This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Python Web SIG, written , and concerning Uncategorized

Simon flags the new existence of the Python Web SIG, which is "dedicated to improving Python's support for interacting with World Wide Web services and clients". I'm completely behind this; as Simon points out, there's no shortage of Python web frameworks, but none are anointed by the touch of the standard distribution, and there are a lot to choose from for a novice hacker. The standard library should be better at this; one of the reasons there are so many different Python web frameworks is because dealing with cgi.py is a bit of a pain...

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J.Shell

With everyone rushing to make bad copies of Servlets or PHP, I don’t want Python to have a standard web framework. There were great Python web technologies, such as the underlying principals of Zope (ZPublisher primarily – an ORB that turns HTTP requests into object calls) that predate Java server technologies and PHP both.

There was a web SIG long ago. It’s what ultimately got me a kick-ass Python job.

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