AnthonyB3

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by AnthonyB3 14y ago
No, notice that "builtins" was in quotes. web2py does not actually add new members to __builtins__. Rather, web2py executes model files, controllers, and views in a pre-defined environment that includes a number of web2py API objects (thoug
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by AnthonyB3 14y ago
> web2py appears both bad and unpopular to me. Regarding popularity, for some time now the web2py Google Group has had more postings than the Django group, and the web2py group membership has been growing at a much faster rate than Djan
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by AnthonyB3 14y ago
> If I found myself talking to someone who had used web2py, I'd be very interested in their critique, but sadly in every case so far, it's been second hand. In two years of active mailing list participation, I've never seen any actual u
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by AnthonyB3 14y ago
> the smartest web hackers I know universally regard web2py as a fundamentally incorrect way to approach web development Would you care to elaborate on that? Have any of these smart web hackers used web2py for real web development? I as
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by AnthonyB3 14y ago
Well, according to InfoWorld, web2py is the best Python framework ( http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/pillars-p... ). It also won a 2011 Bossie Award for open source development software ( http://www.infoworld.com/d/applica
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
> try modeling a school, for example, with the relationships between teachers, students, parents, and classes. The DAL can be used to model any set of tables and relationships that can be created in an RDBMS, so it's not clear what the
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
Great. Thanks.
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
It would be interesting to see how you tried it in the DAL and the alternative that you found easier in SQLAlchemy. Can you show an example?
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
Sounds like FUD. Care to share some examples? Note, in most cases, the DAL has fewer, not more limitations than a typical ORM. web2py does use standard Python. What bad practices? Have you seen this: http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/2460
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
No, the 1.0 vs. .08 is for the entire eight year period depicted, during most of which Node.js didn't even exist. What's relevant is the trend and how they compare right now -- RoR is going down, Node is going up, and Node is right now near
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by AnthonyB3 15y ago
Many experienced developers use web2py and find it to be quite flexible and powerful. For example, see comments here ( http://harrywolff.com/2011/01/web-application-development-fr... ) regarding questions about function re-use and form cust