I am creating a school management system that handles file uploads and downloads from teachers and students. Furthermore, there will be a large amount of database writes and reads (e.g. which classes a student is taking, what the student’s grades are etc.)
I want dynamic web pages updated with python using an AJAX model on the front end.
On the back end I want to use python for file handling, database reads to show user their content, database writes when a user updates his/her content on the web app and memcache.
The stack I am using is…
CentOS + Hadoop + Hypertable + Python
I am currently going through the Pyramid docs and after going past a few chapters, I don’t see how pyramid helps me accomplish what I can do in PHP, and if it does do this, why so complicated?
Is pyramid the right tool, or should I be using web2py?
If pyramid is the best tool, where can I see some sample code of a complex application built in pyramid. I tend to understand best when reading other’s code.
Django cannot be used due to inflexibility
A web framework like Pyramid is not a web framework like PHP. They’re different.
Complexity is a matter of “experience”. If you’re experienced with PHP, Python seems complex. If your experienced with RoR, PHP seems complex. Everything that’s new seems complex.
Python has a dozen or so web frameworks of varying capabilities. None of them will look like PHP. Zero. They’ll all be different (and appear complex).
Consequently, if you don’t like one. Move on. There are a lot of choices. Keep trying different ones.
Ask specific questions. “I don’t see how pyramid helps me accomplish what I can do in PHP” is too vague to discuss further. If there’s a specific thing you want to know about, search for that specific question (it’s probably already been asked). If you don’t find anything, ask the specific question. Code samples help.