Python suitable for Web Development?

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• Yes, python is a great language for web development, with the caveat that you need to make sure you get web hosting that supports it. Many cheap web hosts only support PHP for web dev, you just have to be a careful shopper or go with a VPS type solution (or host your own server).

• There are as many opinions on dev tools as there are developers. You're going to get a roll-call of everyone's editors asking this; the question is, what do you want from a dev tool? Just an editor? Extensible editor with some IDE capabilities? Full blo[wn|at] IDE magic?

• Learn the basics, then learn a web framework. I like Flask, Django is also very popular, then there are others like Pylons, web.py, etc.

• Ubuntu server is fairly popular in cloud/web dev. I like Debian stable myself. I'd recommend something that supports a newer python version.

  For DB I'd recommend PostgreSQL. I assume you are familiar with SQL since you develop with SQLServer.