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Web framework notes

For our March meeting, the Utah python user group had multiple people present a solution to the PyWebOff challenge . This is not an attempt at an authoritative web frameworks review. The backgrounds of the presenters are too different -- in particular, only the Rails and Spyce presenters had prior prior experience with the frameworks they used. That said -- and obviously I'm all sorts of biased as both presenter and maintainer of Spyce -- I think Spyce came off looking pretty well. Partly because it was designed to automate repetitive tasks with relatively little "magic," and partly because Spyce doesn't try to put you in a straitjacket: you can write strict MVC code if you want, but if mixing some code into your view makes more sense than the alternatives, you can do that too. "I," "me," etc. in the remainder of this post refers to the presenter speaking of himself. In presentation order, here are my notes: TurboGears Presenter: Byron C

Mike Orr's pycon 2006 summary

Mike Orr's pycon 2006 writeup is out in the March Linux Gazette . The usual suspects are present (keynote summaries, etc) as well as some lightning talk info that I haven't seen blogged elsewhere. (I loved Chad Whitacre's Testosterone screencast: "The Manly Python Testing Interface.")