Python Web Frameworks – Development Server

FYI, Quixote (<a href="http://quixote.ca" rel="nofollow">http://quixote.ca</a>) provides a bunch of options too:<p><pre><code> python -m quixote.server.simple_server python -m quixote.server.medusa_server python -m quixote.server.twisted_server python -m quixote.server.fastcgi_server python -m quixote.server.scgi_server </code></pre> simple_server uses BaseHTTPServer and is thus single-threaded and blocking but works fine for development. I like FastCGI or SCGI with a dedicated webserver as a frontend for production.

(posted to blog as well) would like to know more about the strengths/weaknesses of these development resources. For example, one of the things i love about the django dev server is that it "listens" to all the project dependencies and restarts when any file is saved (which has saved me from trying to understand why something I fixed didn't work and discovering that it's because the changes weren't .pyc'd)

That's not a bad overview, but what's the point? How one way is better than the other? Does it make any difference which development server to use?

Sometimes I have problems with runserver and IE. I forgot exactly why (probably multiple requests) but fixed it by using this:<p><a href="https://github.com/ashchristopher/django-concurrent-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ashchristopher/django-concurrent-server</a><p>Really nice module.

The twisted.web server is nice because you can both develop on it and deploy it with minimal configuration. Using twisted.web.wsgi.WSGIResource, you can use it to serve normal WSGI sites, too. It's handy for running multiple sites on different ports.<p>It doesn't automatically reload on file changes, but PyQuitter[1] can provide that functionality, so it's not a huge issue.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/ludios/Pyquitter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ludios/Pyquitter</a>

What this article taught me is the mind-boggling plethora of Python web frameworks out there. I'm heavily into Django myself, and it does well enough that I'm curious as to the demand for the other frameworks. How many Python web frameworks do you really need in 2012?