Re: bye bye mod_python, hello... what?

Clodoaldo Neto wrote:

2010/1/12 mog <[email protected]> :

So, the time has come. I need to start a new project and also migrate my old
mod_python stuff to something else :(

After all the sweat, blood and tears I put into learning about how Python
web apps work, learning how to use mod_python, and how to put web apps
together (using mod_python). It's really sad to think that a good portion of
that effort seems lost because, unfortunately, mod_python is deprecated :(

I looked at a few web frameworks but found they either simply didn't work,
exhibited weird random unpredictable behaviour that was impossible to work
with, or seemed to abstract so far away from real HTTP which made me feel
uncomfortable. I finally settled on mod_python because it seemed to be a
nice balance of powerful functionality and usefulness - oh, and it worked.

With mod_python I felt as though I was working closely with the HTTP
requests because I could use the request objects directly and, if I wanted
(and I did), stick stuff in them to use in sessions. mod_python seemed
pretty raw, but not so much so that I had to write my own request handlers
and all the nitty gritty things like that (which, being new to web
development, was and probably still is beyond my ability to do well and
securely). I liked it because it also provided lots of in-built utilities
making it really easy to do session handling, redirection and so on.

I'm trying to avoid using one of the mainstream frameworks because I feel
they overcomplicate things, bloat things up, and abstract too much away from
what is really going on. Many of them annoyingly also end up requiring a
bazillion dependencies to install. Personally I like to use small and
compact programs that are really good at doing the small number of things I
need them to, as opposed to installing some giant application (and all its
dependencies) that can do everything under the sun I'll never use.

With all this in mind. I was hoping someone would please be so kind as to
recommend things that I could use instead of mod_python as a WSGI layer, but
that hopefully works in a similar way to mod_python?

You could start trying Werkzeug which calls itself "a simple
collection of various utilities for WSGI applications".

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/

After going through changes similar to yours recently I have settled on
Werkzeug. So far I am very impressed -- two thumbs up!

Doug

Then WebOb:

http://pythonpaste.org/webob/

Regarding small and simple I think the two above are some of the best
approaches but don't expect something like the mod_python's publisher
handler.

Regards, Clodoaldo

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Kind regards,
mog
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