Do I really need a web framework?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2013-09-30 12:57 -0700
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Subject	Do I really need a web framework?
From	dufriz@gmail.com

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I want to set up a very simple website, and I need to know if it is necessary to use a web framework (e.g. Django) to do basic interactive operations such as receiving input from the user, looking up a database and returning some data to the user.
I know that this is exactly the purpose of web frameworks, and that they work fine.
However, I read somewhere that for small projects such operations can be managed without a web framework, just by using Python with mod_python or with the CGI module. Is this correct? 

What do you suggest, keeping in mind that I am a newbie and that my website project would be very simple and very small?

Thanks

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Do I really need a web framework? dufriz@gmail.com - 2013-09-30 12:57 -0700
  Re: Do I really need a web framework? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 06:39 +1000
  Re: Do I really need a web framework? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-09-30 21:53 +0000
  Re: Do I really need a web framework? waynejwerner@gmail.com - 2013-09-30 15:16 -0700
  Re: Do I really need a web framework? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-30 21:00 -0400

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