I just stumbled across what looks to be one of the most promising Python based web frameworks I’ve seen to date: Newvow. While I haven’t had a chance to look at it much yet, it seems to be more along the lines of the “code behind” type of framework, a la ASP.NET, rather than the ModelViewController framework. I like this, as I’ve never really seen the need for the MVC pattern on the web (yes, I’m sure it makes sense for certain applications, but generally speaking…). When I’ve had a chance to poke at it some more I may write more.
Mar
19
2007
I’ve used Nevow for a number of projects and it’s a great toolkit. It’s not geared towards “quick and dirty” webapps the way some other frameworks are, but it has some of its own very powerful tools. The templating engine is very mature, and Athena (its AJAX module) is far more robust than a lot of the other approaches I’ve seen to writing client/server web applications.
Plus, it’s built on top of Twisted, so there’s a lot of other powerful things you can integrate with your server code that are normally much harder to do in a synchronous, thread-based framework.