At Gioorgi.com we have used plenty of web frameworks.

Giovanni Giorgi used Seaside,  a lot of PHP frameworks, Java Struts, RubyOnRails, and Python Django.

We have started to look for Web2Py, a compact,  easy to learn  python web framework.

From the most notable feature, it runs also on Google App Engine. Written by an Italian University professor for teaching web development, spots a very clean design, and a robust security infrastructure. We  suggest it because installation (and upgrading) is a snap.

Let’s take a look to it…

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YASnippet is a template system for emacs. It allows you to type a abbrevation and automatically expand the abbreviation into function templates.

Bundled language templates includes: C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, LaTeX, HTML, CSS and more.

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One of the best thing of scripting languages like Python is the ability to fast prototype complex things. In the past ten years, if you like to build distributed application you was forced to use huge and heavily languages like Java.

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Django Project, a powerful and clean Python Web Framework, is going to relase 1.2 as  the next milestone at the beginning of March. For the meanwhile, you can grab the Beta2:

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This article is a work in progress: it will be expanded by your comments…

Python is a very curios programming languages: it give you classes but also a strong function-oriented environment to play with. So, if you like functional programming (read: you like  Lisp and/or Erlang)  you should give python a closer look.

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Do you want develop web applications in a fast, prototype based way using Python?

Follow us and learn how to use web2py….

Step 1: Python 2.6 proper setup

On Linux be sure to install sqlite development library; the following command will help on RedHat:

sudo apt-get install sqlite-devel

for the yum variant see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233320/cannot-import-sqlite-with-python-2-6

Install python 2.6, this will avoid the need of additional libraries.

You will also need openssl, so if you haven’t  it issue commands like

sudo apt-get install openssl

and be sure to get also the python wrapper pyOpenSSL hosted here

We happly compiled pyOpenSSL from sources

For more tips and tricks look also at this recipe about Apache Setup, if you need it.

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Suds is a lightweight SOAP python client for consuming Web Services.

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Spesso capita di dover scaricare file al di fuori del browser: per esempio per installare software o per consentire ai propri programmi python/java/curl di effettuare delle azioni programmatiche

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software#Python