"Rails"-like thing for Python?

[Jeff Blaine]

Like many people, I've recently been turned onto "Ruby On Rails"
(I believe it was a Slashdot article release announcement
recently) and didn't know it existed before then.

I've been writing Python code for 6 years now, on and off, and
I have to say I am leaning more and more toward at least learning
Ruby and doing my next few projects with it.

I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
Python? Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building. One that does it
consistently, well, etc. Zope is far from what I mean.

[Dave Brueck]

Jeff Blaine wrote:

Like many people, I've recently been turned onto "Ruby On Rails"
(I believe it was a Slashdot article release announcement
recently) and didn't know it existed before then.

I've been writing Python code for 6 years now, on and off, and
I have to say I am leaning more and more toward at least learning
Ruby and doing my next few projects with it.

I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
Python? Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building. One that does it
consistently, well, etc. Zope is far from what I mean.

Why not get a few volunteers together and just port it? It's only about 24k
lines of code - and since Python and Ruby are relatively "close" languages, a
lot of that could probably be a line-by-line translation into Python.

Get the group to agree to 0 changes in functionality and each person can proceed
almost independently (heck, I'll sign up to port a few files if somebody wants
to manage a list of who is assigned to what).

Or, if you try Ruby and end up liking it, you're done. ;-) (I did try it, but
really, really didn't like it)

-Dave

[Istvan Albert]

Jeff Blaine wrote:

Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building.
These are just words that you read on a page.
Does it work that way? Is it all it is claiming
to be? I'm a little skeptical.
I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
Python?

There are many excellent frameworks for python that may
seem to be more modest by their descriptions but work
exceedingly well nonetheless.

Istvan.