Pros and Cons of different approaches to web programming in Python

Question

I\'d like to do some server-side scripting using Python. But I\'m kind of lost with the number of ways to do that.

It starts with the do-it-yourself CGI approach and it

Answer 1

If you decide to go with a framework that is WSGI-based (for instance TurboGears), I would recommend you go through the excellent article Another Do-It-Yourself Framework by Ian Bicking.

In the article, he builds a simple web application framework from scratch.

Also, check out the video Creating a web framework with WSGI by Kevin Dangoor. Dangoor is the founder of the TurboGears project.