What is the Python equivalent of Tomcat?

Question

This question likely betrays a misconception, but I\'m curious what the \"Tomcat\" of the Python world is.

All of my web programming experience is in Java (or Groovy) so

Answer 1

There are different approaches which have one thing in common: They usually communicate via WSGI with their "container" (the server receiving the HTTP requests before they go to your Python code).

There are various containers:

• wsgiref - a very simple reference implementation which is nice during development
• Apache with mod_wsgi
• most other Webservers with a module adding WSGI support
• many more