Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 01/12/2024 08:39, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 11/30/24 1:22 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:19:28 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 11/29/24 4:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:06:58 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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[Python] isn't REALLY meant for interactive web apps.

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There are quite a few frameworks for using Python to do exactly that.

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Yea, sort of, but they seem kinda clunky work-arounds to me.

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Really? Which ones would you describe that way? Work-arounds for what?

 
   Server-side, PHP is about all that's properly
   supported. The Server-Lords don't like even that,
   uses up too many cycles. They'd LIKE to see all
   the hard work done on YOUR box instead. That's
   what JS does.
 

Well thats php.
 
Of course you can write CGI in any language if you like, it just gets
harder and more involved.
 

   As such, you really won't find any straight-up
   Python based server-side web interpreters. What
   exists are ALL sort of kludges, some evoking
   PHP to get things done.

 
AFAIK Apache can be configured to use any language for 'active pages' .
PHP is however the default.

Yes I've done simple CGI scripts in Bash even. Apache and PHP have
an extra link in the form of mod_php. That runs PHP scripts from
Apache without starting a separate process for the interpreter.
Apparantly there was a mod_Python but development was abandoned.

PHP also has OPcache for caching compiled copies of scripts for
performance. I'm not sure if that can be done so transparently with
Python (since I dislike Python anyway, I'm not that interested).

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