Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ottix-news.ottix.net!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: What killed Smalltalk could kill Python Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <54bfd513$0$12978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1421949132 5568 67.130.15.94 (22 Jan 2015 17:52:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:52:12 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:84242 On 2015-01-22, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-01-21 23:10, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I happily ignored PHP until a couple years back when we decided to >> use PHP for the web site on a small embedded Linux system. > [snip] >> I briefly considered trying to switch to Python, but the Python >> footprint is just too big... > > Interesting that your experience swung that way. > > I worked on a contract about a year ago where it involved deploying > web services & ZigBee communications on a Digi Connectport[1] which is > certainly a rather underpowered device (20MB of memory is tight). My > biggest issue was the project-lead's choice of CherryPy and > SQLObject...neither has nearly the same quality of documentation as > I'd grown accustomed to in the Django world. Yet I was able to run > an HTTPS CherryPy server talking to a local sqlite database with > minimal trouble, handling a modest (i.e., small business) load. Maybe I should look at Python again. It's too late for this product, but maybe in the future... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! But was he mature at enough last night at the gmail.com lesbian masquerade?