Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
And although http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor. 34  4374 
Victor Kryukov wrote:
Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
....
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
You may not be happy with Python, then.
Having spent the last several months implementing a reasonably complex
web site in Python, I now have an understanding of the problems involved.
Which are non-trivial.
Some key web site components, like the SSL interface and the
MySQL interface, are written in C and maintained by third parties,
often by a single person. Getting the correct version for your
platform and making it work can be difficult. Getting the right
versions of MySQL, OpenSSL, and Python to all play together is
non-trivial. Expect to have to build from source, debug the build
process, look at source repositories, submit bug reports, fix
library bugs yourself, and maintain a local set of library patches.
Few hosting companies will have these modules available for you.
It's not like Perl or PHP, where it works out of the box. WebFaction
claims to support Python well, but few other hosting companies bother.
Most Linux distributions ship with older versions of Python, and
that's what most hosting companies will give you. Python 2.4
is par for the course.
High traffic sites are a problem. There are a number of
"frameworks ", all supported by different people and with different
capabilities. See http://www.polimetrix.com/pycon/slides/
for a discussion. I haven't tried most of them, so I won't
say anything about that issue.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
Not that much of YouTube is really in Python. The video
codecs aren't; they'd take forever if they were. And since Google
took over, the old YouTube search engine (which was terrible) was
replaced by Google's search technology.
John Nagle
On May 16, 6:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryu... @gmail.comwrote :
Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
And althoughhttp://www.python.org/about/quotes/lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor.
Take a look at reddit.com .
It's been developed with WEBPY and it receives millions of visits
every day.
There are also many sites built with Django (check their website) with
a lot of traffic and very good performance
And I'm sure other frameworks can show other success stories... just
check their websites.
Luis
On May 16, 6:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryu... @gmail.comwrote :
Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
And althoughhttp://www.python.org/about/quotes/lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor.
Take a look at reddit.com .
It's been developed with WEBPY and it receives millions of visits
every day.
There are also many sites built with Django (check their website) with
a lot of traffic and very good performance
And I'm sure other frameworks can show other success stories... just
check their websites.
Luis
On May 16, 6:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryu... @gmail.comwrote :
Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
And althoughhttp://www.python.org/about/quotes/lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor.
Reddit.com was built with webpy, and it's amongst the top 1000
websites in volume of traffic.
So if you liked it, go with it...
I believe one of the authors of reddit is also webpy's developer.
Luis
On May 16, 5:04 pm, Victor Kryukov <victor.kryu... @gmail.comwrote :
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
I think this is a requirement that is pretty much impossible to
satisfy. Only dead frameworks stay the same. I have yet to see a
framework that did not have incompatible versions.
Django has a very large user base, great documentation and is deployed
for several online new and media sites. It is fast, it's efficient and
is simple to use. Few modern frameworks (in any language) are
comparable, and I have yet to see one that is better, http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoPoweredSites
i.
Victor Kryukov napisa³(a):
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
I don't think you find anything even remotely resembling that idea here.
Moreover, I don't think you find it elsewhere. Maybe even such tools do
not exist in nature?
--
Jarek Zgoda
"We read Knuth so you don't have to."
Victor Kryukov wrote:
Hello list,
our team is going to rewrite our existing web-site, which has a lot of
dynamic content and was quickly prototyped some time ago.
And has stayed around to dog the developers, as so many quick fixes do ...
Today, as we get better idea of what we need, we're going to re-write
everything from scratch. Python is an obvious candidate for our team:
everybody knows it, everybody likes it, it has *real* objects, nice
clean syntax etc.
Yes indeedy, that's our language!
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
Given that even Apache has bugs despite its venerable status I think you
are setting your sights a little high here.
Our problem is - we yet have to find any example of high-traffic,
scalable web-site written entirely in Python. We know that YouTube is
a suspect, but we don't know what specific python web solution was
used there.
Zope? Plone? Django? TurboGears? All are handling large volumes of data
on a daily basis, and I wouldn't use either of them (but that's just a
personal issue).
TurboGears, Django and Pylons are all nice, and provides rich features
- probably too many for us - but, as far as we understand, they don't
satisfy the stability requirement - Pylons and Django hasn't even
reached 1.0 version yet. And their provide too thick layer - we want
something 'closer to metal', probably similar to web.py -
unfortunately, web.py doesn't satisfy the stability requirement
either, or so it seems.
So the question is: what is a solid way to serve dynamic web pages in
python? Our initial though was something like python + mod_python +
Apache, but we're told that mod_python is 'scary and doesn't work very
well'.
Python CGI? mod_python is OK, but like all frameworks you have to be
aware of its limitations.
And although http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ lists many big names
and wonderful examples, be want more details. E.g. our understanding
is that Google uses python mostly for internal web-sites, and
performance is far from perfect their. YouTube is an interesting
example - anybody knows more details about that?
Google use Python for all sorts of stuff.
Your suggestions and comments are highly welcome!
Best Regards,
Victor.
I think you are chasing a chimera (and I wrote a *book* called "Python
Web Programming").
regards
Steve
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John Nagle wrote:
Victor Kryukov wrote:
Our main requirement for tools we're going to use is rock-solid
stability. As one of our team-members puts it, "We want to use tools
that are stable, has many developer-years and thousands of user-years
behind them, and that we shouldn't worry about their _versions_." The
When settling on an environment you need to have a clear strategy
about component versions and compatibility. Although Python provides a
fairly reasonable backwards compatibility story, one still needs to be
aware of changes between versions and their implications, but this is
the case for a large proportion of the software produced today.
Despite the baggage maintained by Microsoft so that ancient
applications might still run in recent versions of Windows, to choose
a fairly extreme example in certain respects, there are still many
things to be aware of when maintaining or upgrading your environment.
Saying that something needs "Python plus Windows/Linux plus some
database system" isn't going to be enough if you're emphasizing
stability.
main reason for that is that we want to debug our own bugs, but not
the bugs in our tools.
You may not be happy with Python, then.
Having spent the last several months implementing a reasonably complex
web site in Python, I now have an understanding of the problems involved.
Which are non-trivial.
I'm sure they are, which is why I attempt to use the tools and
services available to reduce the impact of those problems on myself.
Some key web site components, like the SSL interface and the
MySQL interface, are written in C and maintained by third parties,
often by a single person. Getting the correct version for your
platform and making it work can be difficult. Getting the right
versions of MySQL, OpenSSL, and Python to all play together is
non-trivial. Expect to have to build from source, debug the build
process, look at source repositories, submit bug reports, fix
library bugs yourself, and maintain a local set of library patches.
I think we went through this before, but to what extent did you rely
on your distribution to handle many of these issues? Or was this on
Windows? If so, you're the master of your own distribution rather than
a group of helpful people who've probably already done most of that
work.
Few hosting companies will have these modules available for you.
It's not like Perl or PHP, where it works out of the box. WebFaction
claims to support Python well, but few other hosting companies bother.
Most Linux distributions ship with older versions of Python, and
that's what most hosting companies will give you. Python 2.4
is par for the course.
There's nothing wrong with Python 2.4. Perhaps you've inadvertently
highlighted an issue with the Python community: that everyone wants
the latest and greatest, and sees the CPython distribution as the
primary means of delivering it. If so, you've just included yourself
in the group causing yourself all those problems described above.
Paul
P.S. The inquirer may wish to visit sites representing the different
frameworks in order to seek testimonials, and to look for sites using
those frameworks in order to assess their popularity. Zope, Plone,
Django, TurboGears, Webware and many others have delivered high-
profile sites at various times, as far as I recall.
I think the first question I would have is what kind of dynamic
content are you talking about? Is this a web app kind of thing, or
just a content pushing site?
While Django might not be v1.0 yet, it seems very solid and stable,
and perfect for quickly building powerful content based dynamic sites.
Other Python frameworks might be well suited to other types of dynamic
sites. (I like TurboGears for actual web apps...)
Depending on your needs you might also consider a non-python solution
(!) like Drupal. (I'm not a PHP fan, but since other people have done
all that great work....:)
As others have said, there might be no framework currently in
existence that meets all of your requirements. You'll need to work
with your team to decide what kinds of compromises you can all live
with.
Chris
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