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Subject: Re: Suitable software stacks for simple python web service
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On Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:42:42 AM UTC-5, Kev Dwyer wrote:
> Steve Petrie wrote:
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> >> Hello List,
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> >> I have to build a simple web service which will:
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as
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> >> Kev
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> > I'm using the Bottle web framework (http://bottlepy.org) to integrate
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> > Steve
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> Hello Steve,
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> Thanks for  your comment.
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> I'm curious, did you consider any web servers other than Apache?=20
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> Kev

You're telling me that there are other web servers? ;)

I didn't try any others seriously, no.  My experience is with Apache and II=
S, and I try to stay away from Windows.

I should mention, given Dieter Maurer's comment, that Bottle is a (fairly t=
hin) layer built over WSGI.  I've built applications directly over WSGI as =
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no longer supported: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2010/05/modpython-project-soo=
n-to-be-officially.html.