"Rails"-like thing for Python?

[Jeff Blaine]

Like many people, I've recently been turned onto "Ruby On Rails"
(I believe it was a Slashdot article release announcement
recently) and didn't know it existed before then.

I've been writing Python code for 6 years now, on and off, and
I have to say I am leaning more and more toward at least learning
Ruby and doing my next few projects with it.

I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
Python? Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building. One that does it
consistently, well, etc. Zope is far from what I mean.

 

[Dave Brueck]

Like many people, I've recently been turned onto "Ruby On Rails"
(I believe it was a Slashdot article release announcement
recently) and didn't know it existed before then.

I've been writing Python code for 6 years now, on and off, and
I have to say I am leaning more and more toward at least learning
Ruby and doing my next few projects with it.

I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
Python? Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building. One that does it
consistently, well, etc. Zope is far from what I mean.

Why not get a few volunteers together and just port it? It's only about 24k
lines of code - and since Python and Ruby are relatively "close" languages, a
lot of that could probably be a line-by-line translation into Python.

Get the group to agree to 0 changes in functionality and each person can proceed
almost independently (heck, I'll sign up to port a few files if somebody wants
to manage a list of who is assigned to what).

Or, if you try Ruby and end up liking it, you're done. ;-) (I did try it, but
really, really didn't like it)

-Dave

 

[Istvan Albert]

Specifically, I mean a generalized framework for
rapidly performing web application building.

These are just words that you read on a page.
Does it work that way? Is it all it is claiming
to be? I'm a little skeptical.

> I am curious if there is anything like the Rails framework for
> Python?

There are many excellent frameworks for python that may
seem to be more modest by their descriptions but work
exceedingly well nonetheless.

Istvan.