Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Django': 0.03; 'django.': 0.05; 'inspired': 0.05; 'extent': 0.07; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.09; 'assumed': 0.09; 'frameworks,': 0.09; 'received:openend.se': 0.09; 'received:theraft.openend.se': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'assume': 0.11; '(at': 0.13; 'stack': 0.13; 'django': 0.13; 'thu,': 0.15; 'cc:addr:lac': 0.16; 'cc:addr:openend.se': 0.16; 'dislike': 0.16; 'from:addr:lac': 0.16; 'from:addr:openend.se': 0.16; 'from:name:laura creighton': 0.16; 'message-id:@fido.openend.se': 0.16; 'received:89.233': 0.16; 'received:89.233.217': 0.16; 'received:89.233.217.133': 0.16; 'received:fido': 0.16; 'received:fido.openend.se': 0.16; 'laura': 0.18; '2015': 0.20; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.20; 'aug': 0.20; 'cc:2**1': 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'least': 0.27; '-0700,': 0.29; 'bad.': 0.29; 'rails': 0.29; 'received:se': 0.29; 'ago': 0.29; 'cc:no real name:2**1': 0.29; 'maybe': 0.33; 'ones': 0.35; 'framework': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'subject:the': 0.39; 'still': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.61; 'is.': 0.63; 'different': 0.63; 'dont': 0.64; 'other.': 0.64; 'received:89': 0.80 To: Rustom Mody cc: python-list@python.org, lac@openend.se From: Laura Creighton Subject: Re: Is Django the way to go for a newbie? In-Reply-To: Message from Rustom Mody of "Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:30:17 -0700." References: <55C7E15C.6070003@verizon.net> <6f2dc159-146b-44b8-b72e-fa34c4dc43cf@googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <31454.1439526215.1@fido> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 06:23:35 +0200 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.9 (theraft.openend.se [89.233.217.130]); Fri, 14 Aug 2015 06:23:39 +0200 (CEST) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1439526228 news.xs4all.nl 2848 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54075 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:95370 In a message of Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:30:17 -0700, Rustom Mody writes: > >I dont know Django. Used RoR some years ago and it was frightening. >And Ruby is not bad. So I assume Rails is. >I just assumed -- maybe ignorantly -- that Django and RoR are generically >similar systems > It's web2py that is the Python web framework that was inspired and influenced by RoR. And they are about as different as can be and still both be Full Stack Frameworks, to the extent that most people (at least all the ones I know) who really like one framework also really dislike the other. Laura