Have you checked out the app engine?
http://code.google.com/appengine/
Google is providing web app hosting for Python based apps. There are a few limitations on what you can do (like no writing to disk, no relational database), but it’s free.
They say they hope to add support for more languages in the future, but I don’t expect to see Java on the list for a while. [looks like a while is about a year - ed.]
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It’s a language, which is fortunately not all that popular. I wonder if they’ve finally removed the Fortran-like requirement for indentation.
Is Python a language? a framework?
The indentation is a fundamental part of the language, it isn’t going away.
Many programmers bristle at Python, because while most general purpose languages like C, Java, Ruby, etc. are built on the principle that there should be many ways to do something in the language, Python believes that the ways should be limited preferably to one way. For instance, while in Java there are as many ways to itereate over a list as there are programmers, in Python there are fewer. I would say one, but it has been a while since I played with it. This philosophy extends even to code formatting, which is Jason’s beef. It does mean that it is easy to read once you get over your personal style issues
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It is used in many application and there are web frameworks and content management systems based on Python. To name a few:
Bug trakers: bugzilla, trac
Testing tool: Mercurial
Web Application Server : Zope
Web MVC Framework: Django (named after the guitar player I suppose)
CMS: Plone
Linux package manager: Yum
Statistic package SPSS uses it as its command/macro language
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