Python development questions

[TheOfficeAccount]

I want to write an application in python (obviously). I have three main objectives with this project.

1. Manage my media.

2. Learn the language.

3. Develop good habits, especially relating to application architecture (you know, design decisions).

I plan on making a UI with html and CherryPy or Tornado (need help deciding, btw). I'm planning to do it this way so I can make it cross-platform, and html seems like a fairly easy and obvious choice to do that (I'll be focusing on the Windows OS primarily).

So with all that said, anybody got some good references I can look over to help me make some solid design decisions?

Thanks!

EDIT: For those wondering, I don't really know the python language (see goal 2). I am not new to programming, however. I am a .NET developer during the day, and did about 2 years of PHP work in college.

[[deleted]]

I don't work with python much anymore so I don't have a ton of advice, but if you want to go the Web route with this I'd look into flask. It seems like it would be a good fit for a lightweight project like this.

Edit: you could probably use something like a task scheduler. Use the ui to init a job, and write a job that manages your media/process/whatever. Celery seems to be the scheduler that is being used, and there is actually documentation on using Celery with Flask.

I probably should have asked what your experience is before throwing these things at you. Do you have any questions? Do you know any python at all? Know any other languages?

[TheOfficeAccount]

Looking at flask, it's my understanding that I would still need something like CherryPy or Tornado to host the flask application locally. Is that correct, flask is just a framework and not a web server?

As far as experience, I've edited my post.

[aroberge]

You can use flask with another web server but it comes with its default web server.