I would like to develop a website with python, - http://flask.pocoo.org/ or http://webpy.org/ as simple lightweight alternatives to django
- gunicorn or uwsgi as a wsgi server
- supervisord for controlling processes
- mongodb, redis, sqlite3 all have fairly complete and easy to use python apisFor something a little more minimal, try google app engine - their getting started guide is a very simple one form web app: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/
There is also some stuff at the end of www.learnpythonthehardway.org focusing on web dev but it doesn't use Django.
Also, I imagine what ever text editor you used for other things, e.g TextMate or Emacs, could work well here too. I think maybe Eclipse will do plugin because, after all, there's usually a plugin for everything with Eclipse.
P.S keep me posted on how you get on :)
for example with asp.net,working with vs .net simplifies things,html is separated with codebehind(c#)
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From the intro:
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- look up CherryPy - It's pretty simple to get started and
a good way to learn something about both web servers and
websites.
- you could also check out learn python the hard way
(2nd edition) toward the end it has some exercises on
setting up a website using a framework based on web.py
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex50.html
- of course, Django is the most popular framework and so
will also have the most documentation.When it comes to databases I would advice using PostgreSQL but I guess anything will work fine, so you may stick to what you know best.
some years ago I do some webs with python but i think that nodejs or lisp is better for web develop
I've tried web2py on appengine, its one framework that would eat out your appengine resources very quickly - http://youtu.be/QOhZkoK1Cr8 (that's just two of us hitting the instance, CPU usage - 16% - 20% in minutes)
Other than that, ah we got globals everywhere !! really makes it hard for any sane IDE to understand WTF is going on. Models are loaded alphabetically. I couldn't get unit-tests working sanely (but that might be as the project I work on replaces web2py crud with their own implementation on top of it).
Why not something very simple - Flask or AppEngine. I found writing your webapp in google appengine way more "a good and clean way to go" than web2py.