On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mac Ryan<quasipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > A couple of months ago I took the time to read a few articles on python > web application frameworks and I got the impression that the two most > mature and active projects are Zope and Django. > > Zope vs. Django hits 879.000 pages on google but much of the debate - or > at least this is my impression - falls into the class "vi vs. emacs" or > "gtk vs. qt" with many people singling out a single characteristics that > for them is THE characteristic making one framework better than the > other. > > This [1] graph seems to corroborate my final impression (i.e. that > django is the way to go). Yet, I would be very interested in hearing > what the members of this list think, as I particularly enjoy the > "learner centered" approach that most of the people seems to have here. > > I believe my needs are quite ordinary: my customers are typically small > businesses needing to process their data on a single server, sometime > exposing part of the application as front-end to the customers (hence > easy and flexible theming is important). I would definitively be happy > to sacrifice some functionality in exchange for a leaner and cleaner > design (i.e. more modular, elegant and intuitive), though. > > Thank you in advance for your time, > Mac. > > [1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=python+zope%2C+python+django > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Your needs definitely favour Django. The learning curve is so much shallower for Django and it's very simple to theme not to mention a much more beginner-tolerant community IMHO. -Mal W _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
