Turbogears 2 vs Django - any advice on choosing replacement for Turbogears 1?

Question

I have been using Turbogears 1 for prototyping small sites for the last couple of years and it is getting a little long in the tooth. Any suggestions on making the call between upgrading to Turbogears 2 or switching to something like Django? I'm torn between the familiarity of the TG community who are pretty responsive and do pretty good documentation vs the far larger community using Django. I am quite tempted by the built-in CMS features and the Google AppEngine support.

Any advice?

Thanks

.M.

Answer 1

Am sure you would have read from plenty of comparison between TurboGears and DJango on web.

But as for your temptation on CMS and GAE, i can really think you got to go DJango way. Check these out, and decide youself.

Django with GAE

Django for CMS

Answer 2

I have been using Django for a year now and when I started I had no experience of Python or Django and found it very intuitive to use.

I have created a number of hobbiest Google App Engine apps using Django with the latest one being a CMS for my site. Using Django has meant that I have been able to code a lot quicker and with a lot less bugs.

Answer 3

I have experience with both Django and TG1.1.

IMO, TurboGears strong point is it's ORM: SQLAlchemy. I prefer TurboGears when the database side of things is non-trivial.

Django's ORM is just not that flexible and powerful.

That being said, I prefer Django. If the database schema is a good fit with Django's ORM I would go with Django.

In my experience, it is simply less hassle to use Django compared with TurboGears.

Answer 4

TG2 is built on top of Pylons which has a fairly large community as well. TG got faster compared to TG1 and it includes a per-method (not just web pages) caching engine. I think it's more AJAX-friendly than Django by the way pages can be easly published in HTML or JSON .

Answer 5

Ive only got one question...is the app you are developing directed towards social networking or customized business logic?

I personally find Django is good for social networking and pylons/turbogears if you really want the flexibility and no boundaries...

just my 2c

Answer 6

I need some suggestion on this, i am newbie to python programming, I am confused on which Framework to use, Turbogears, django, or some else. our requirement is we need to built a site like youtube and dailymotion, so what would you guys suggest, please let me know.

Thank you Suhail