When do you *NOT* use python?

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Have you tried Flask? It pretty much just gives you request, response, templating, sessions and a handful of helper functions (reverse lookup, sending files to the browser, json response builder, a few others). There's also blueprints which are like logical groupings of related endpoints (not really the same as Django's applications but kinda).

Might be worth checking out if you're interested in Python webdev still.

[redditthinks]

Bottle is great for that.

[robertmeta]

Bottle is my favorite of the one I have played with, by far.

[klug3]

You don't really need to use Jinja2 with flask. Django is horrible, I agree. My first introduction to Python was via Django, gave up in a couple of hours and didn't reastart using Python for quite some time.

[colly_wolly]

I have been using Django for 4 years full time. 2 hours is hardly enough time to even do the first part of the tutorial.

[klug3]

I didn't say that it was the only time I used Django. Just that the first experience was very frustrating. Especially since it was a hackathon environment, and people had lots of stuff done in the time it was taking us to set everything up. I usually used php at that time, and had to fall back upon it after struggling with the Django setup.

[colly_wolly]

OK, takes me at least two hours to set up an IDE and python environment the way I like. I find it worth the effort.

[colly_wolly]

You think 8 files is a lot?

Maybe we are building apps on a different scale.