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Really, its quite simple. If you already knew that, this post isn't going to enlighten you at all. If WSGI had been one of those things you kept saying to yourself, “Oh, yea, I'll learn that someday”, consider this a short intro to all the info a web developer and to some extent a framework author, will likely care about.

Mmm, tasty, a headline of P-word's. Recently Ian Bicking went on a bit of a release spree with a whole bunch of goodness that I'm way too lazy to link to in this paragraph.

My prior post regarding Best of Breed Controllers got more notice than I had anticipated, I definitely didn't expect the interesting discussion regarding object publishing history it spawned. But first, some corrections:

I've been doing a lot of comparisons and research into various Python web frameworks lately, mainly focused on MVC oriented frameworks. Some of them have templating languages they come with, some not so much.

I indicated in my last article that I would begin blogging about a very misunderstood, and what I would consider unappreciated Python package called PythonPaste. Python Paste is currently undergoing a documentation and website update after which it will hopefully be much more useful for those wishing to use it, or even understand why they'd want to.

Routes 0.2 has been released. The change-log is pitifully short: Added prefix option Fixed Python 2.3 bug with thread-local singleton But hey, its a small package to begin with so what the heck.

On many occasions, its quite useful when developing web applications to have the webapp know whether its in a production/development/testing environment. Rails builds this into the framework and its rather easy to add this toggle throughout a Myghty webapp (or some other Python web framework) as well.

In a recent Wired article regarding One Login, reference is made to a new social style network called GoingOn. The article spends most of its time focusing on one site that hopes to aggregate functionality that currently is split between Blogger, Flickr, Friendster, and Bloglines (for the most part).

Two of my favorite and most often-used Python packges are formencode and sqlobject. Using these packages together is done fairly often, but I've rarely seen any documentation describing a full form display, validation, and insert into a database of new data from said form.

I've been thinking a lot lately about web programmers and the web frameworks they choose, or don't choose, and why. I'm mainly going to talk about Python Web Frameworks as the majority of them have small communites, and possible reasons this could be.