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Re: Which Python Framework for REST API and Facebook Wrapper?

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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, <harry.andrei@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will be designing a REST based API for a cross-platform back end that
> will serve both desktop Facebook users as well as mobile users. It will
> handle operations such as user creation, retrieval of user and other data,
> payment verification and in the case of the desktop side, handle the
> html/css template customization. The database back end is MySQL and I do
> need a cache system.
>
> Currently we were using Codeigniter (PHP) for our codebase but as CI seems
> on the way out, I do not wish to start a new project based on it. I was
> looking at Laravel for PHP, but, Python is very attractive to me as a
> language and since the introduction of WSGI, I am confident it can make a
> difference in performance and code maintainability over PHP while being
> able to plug in to our dedicated server infrastructure.
>
> Since I am not experienced with Python frameworks (though learning curve
> is not much of an issue for me) I look to the community to understand which
> Python framework can rival or surpass Codeigniter in terms of performance
> in heavy traffic backend solutions (over 1M requests per day, with up to
> 100 req/sec at peak). I really want to make the switch from PHP to Python
> as I believe that Python can solve more problems with less code and faster
> execution time, not to mention freedom from brackets and semicolons.
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

While there several others with smaller footprint, django is probably the
elephant in the room

-- 
Joel Goldstick
http://joelgoldstick.com

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Which Python Framework for REST API and Facebook Wrapper? harry.andrei@gmail.com - 2013-09-28 09:20 -0700
  Re: Which Python Framework for REST API and Facebook Wrapper? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-28 12:35 -0400
  Re: Which Python Framework for REST API and Facebook Wrapper? waynejwerner@gmail.com - 2013-09-30 12:24 -0700

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