CS6320:  SW Engineering of Web Based Systems

 

Python and Web Programming

 

Many languages can be choosen for Web Programming and Python is one of them.

 

General page on Python and Web Programming

 

Apache server : mod_python and mod_wsgi

    • these are two of the popular modules that integrate Python into the Apache envrionment

     

mod_python resources

    • wiki page
    • It can emulate CGI, work in a “Python Server Pages” mode (similar to JSP) which is “HTML intermingled with Python”, and it has a “Publisher” which designates one file to accept all requests and decide what to do with them.

 

mod_wsgi resources

Questions to THINK about

Can mod_wsgi perform better?

Is mod_python more stabel and used by more frameworks?

© Lynne Grewe