"ll" <lloeffler at home.com> wrote in message news:3AE0D4E7.FA51F14D at home.com... > I already have a pretty large existing code base on an interactive > website written in PHP. I'm very happy with the performance and ease of > use, integration with MySQL and Apache. (The "trinity" of web > development). > If it ain't broke, don't fix it. > I've been playing around with python recently and have written a few CGI > scripts with it, but I am reluctant to devote too much effort into > Python development. > And why should you, if PHP is meeting your needs. > How does Python stack up against PHP in terms of performance? PHP runs > as a module in Apache, I think, whereas Python runs in a seperate > process. What kind of overhead is there in starting up the VM for each > page hit? How well does it scale? > mod_python and mod_snake will give you persistent Python for Apache, I believe. > I have heard of Zope, but don't know a great deal about it. It seems > more like an entire framework for a website--how well would it integrate > with my existing codebase? > Not at all: Zope is a complete server framework. > Drop in any other ideas/thoughts you have about the comparison > > Luke > Again: why consider change if what you have is doing what you want. Python is a great language, but the effort of climbing the learning curve would probably mean you would take a month or three (depending on the size of your current codebase) just to get where you are now. You could probably go further with Python, but do you *need* to? Start playing with Python for non-web apps first, look at the tutorial on www.python.org, see what you think then. regards Steve
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