Moving from PHP to Python

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Moving from PHP to Python

Currently I do all of my web-based programming in PHP, and each day I get more and more anxious to try Python.

Not that I haven't played with it in an interpreter, but I mean really, write a web-based project in Python, and possibly move pretty much exclusively over to Python.

But, I know that Python isn't strictly a web-based programming language (which is awesome) which makes me wonder if there are any hoops to jump through to use it on the web.

A simple example would be, that I'm sure there's no $_POST like variables in Python by default. How does functionality like that find its way into Python?

How do I move from PHP to Python smoothly? How do I use Python on the web?

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Have a look at django web framework.

kgiannakakis 2010-01-25 08:53:13

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Python is unlike PHP executed by a CGI like interface. This interface has an API to such variables.

Frameworks like Django incorporate that API. It's recommended to use such a framework which makes a lot of things easier.

Ikke 2010-01-25 08:55:02

I'm looking into Django and other frameworks now, can you give an example of how the CGI interface can be used by Python minus a framework though?

Carson Myers 2010-01-25 09:03:33

There are more then one interface. You have FastCGI and WSGI and even mod_python which is an apache module like php.

Ikke 2010-01-25 09:12:19

I see, thank you

Carson Myers 2010-01-25 09:13:15

Here is a tutorial: http://webpython.codepoint.net/mod_python_tutorial

Ikke 2010-01-25 09:13:45

mod_python is *not* like mod_php, other than the fact that it embeds an interpreter into httpd. mod_python is not for running Python apps via httpd, but rather to extend httpd using Python code. The difference may seem trivial, but is *very* important.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-01-25 09:18:39

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Here are some other web frameworks for your reference.

ghostdog74 2010-01-25 08:55:33

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Many web frameworks exist for Python, such as Django, werkzeug, etc. If you want to get "closer to the metal" then look into WSGI.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-01-25 08:56:08

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