Quixote Question

[Fuzzyman]

I have a question about quixote. I've looked at the website but
couldn't easily see the answer tomy question - so I thought I'd ask
the intelligent and helpful folk over at comp.lang.python ;-)

Quixote is a web-framework. Does it act as a server or can it act as a
frameowrk using the CGI protocol ?

I would like to develop a website with user login, download manager,
statistics etc and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. *However* I am
using someone elses server, so I would like to do it using python CGI.

Is this :
a) Possible with Quixote
b) A sensible use of Quixote

Many TIA

Fuzzyman

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html

 

[Haim Ashkenazi]

I have a question about quixote. I've looked at the website but
couldn't easily see the answer tomy question - so I thought I'd ask
the intelligent and helpful folk over at comp.lang.python ;-)

Quixote is a web-framework. Does it act as a server or can it act as a
frameowrk using the CGI protocol ?

I would like to develop a website with user login, download manager,
statistics etc and I don't want to reinvent the wheel. *However* I am
using someone elses server, so I would like to do it using python CGI.

Is this :
a) Possible with Quixote
b) A sensible use of Quixote

I think you would better get the feel of it if you'll download and run the
demos. I just started playing with it, but as far as I understand, you can
use it as stand-alone server (using medusa or twisted), as a cgi script,
as a fastCGI/SCGI or as mod_python. using it with simple CGI interface
will give poor results (very slow). I got the fastest results with SCGI,
and it's only a couple of lines in httpd.conf to make it work (plus a
stop/start script).
again, you really should download and install it, and then you'll
understand much better, also, they have a very good mailing list...

Many TIA

Fuzzyman

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html

Bye