[jinks]

Does anyone know a useful python library that allows me to create a website?

[Simown]

What sort of thing were you looking for? A way to create dynamic scripts for your website maybe? Or a fully kitted out web framework like Django?

[Choscura]

Django gets my recommendation as well. There's a learning curve- I'm on it, it's not easy to start with, especially if you're used to 'pretty' IDE's like Visual Studio or Netbeans - but it's very powerful once you get into the lower levels of it, and it's very fast, if you know what you want to do.

[darek9576]

In what way is Django fast if i may ask. I dont know much abt web languages thats why im asking. What low level stuff does it let you do?

[Simown]

Simply, everything you can do with Python, you can do with Django, since it IS Python - it's definitely not just a web language. One of the reasons why it's fast in development is because it's Python code, which lends itself to that task.

Django makes development even faster for all things web having it's own template system, a MCV development style, each URL is mapped by regex so dynamic URLs and binding to user-generated content is simple. It's database backed, and every table is represented by a model - which is provided with its own API. Shipped with every deployment is an admin system, which simplifies the task of adding new content after the initial model creation.

As you can probably tell, I would highly recommend it. The Django website and free online book are good resources to get started.

[AVReidy]

Since Django uses Python, in addition to being inherently fast to develop with, it is relatively fast on the execution speed side of things (for being an interpreted language). When clocked, it outperforms both Ruby (on rails) and PHP.

[darek9576]

So Django/Python is fast when developing an application but what powerful, low level stuff does Django let you do.

[Simown]

Python is a high level language, what do you mean by "low level stuff"?

[darek9576]

Choscura mentioned it, and i dont know what they meant by it, thats why im asking.

[Simown]

I think he was referring to the "lower levels" being the more "in depth" Django - especially since he stated there is a steep learning curve for him. The further you advance with it, you'll see more features that make it an even more powerful tool.

This post has been edited by Simown: 21 March 2012 - 02:12 PM