2008/6/9 Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I must learn about these things, I've discovered, in this order: > > I suggest you look at Django, it helps with most of this. Probably > TurboGears does also but I'm not familiar with it. > >> 1) How to use Python as an apache module, not as cgi. Each page, at >> least to the outside world, must have an .html extension. > > No problem, your URLs can look however you like. > >> 2) I must learn about classes, and how to include classes in specific pages. > > This sounds like general programming stuff but if you are talking > about your header includes, Django template inheritance provides a > good way to include boilerplate on each page. > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/templates/#template-inheritance > >> 3) How to access GET, POST, and environmental values in Python. By >> environmental values I mean the requesting page's IP address, UA > > In the Django request: > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/request_response/#attributes > >> details such as preferred language and charset (which I use to serve >> the homepage in one of two languages), the query string, etc. > > Also in the request, if I understand correctly. > >> 4) How to access and work with MySQL. I am familiar with SQL, it is >> just the python integration I need to learn (how to send a query, how >> to parse the reply). > > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/ > >> 5) How to work with cookies in Python. > > Not sure why you need this but Django has support for cookie-based > authentication. > >> 6) How to send mail with Python and sendmail. > > http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/mail.py > >> 7) How to manipulate images with Python. From what I understand this >> is _not_ possible, so I may have to stick with php on this one. > > See Python Imaging Library > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm > > Kent >
You have me very convinced, Kent, and you've pointed me to some very helpful docs. I think that I will use django, as it seems to be designed for what I intend to do. I though up until now that _python_ is similar to php, but it seems that django with python is what is similar to php. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
