Why Python for web development?

Question

I am interested in learning this language or not.

I was 15 years old, mainly coding with PHP. I know C, C ++, Java, Perl ... but PHP solved all my problems for web development.

I read this carefully: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp

I find Python useful for sysadmin tasks, for example, or for the first time learning a programming language. Sincerely, I like its cleanliness and clarity (this is similar to "Jquerized PHP") ... but I still find blogs protecting Python for web development ... Why?

Can someone explain me the benefits of Python for the web?

Answer 1

I would not become a Python web developer without a framework. Moving from Rails to Django, Django is much better. It has great documents, a great community, doesn't try to force architecture (which can lead to hours of search engine work on where to put things), and doesn't hide things that hide the “magic” like Rails does.

It protects against XSS by default (i.e. you should tell it NOT to avoid HTML), and since it has a great ORM interface, it has little chance of stupid SQL injection errors. It also has built-in protection against CSRF attacks that work as middleware. This is not something that PHP is inherently unsafe, but gives developers too many opportunities to mess up.

It also has amazing extensions, such as Pinax, and they combine substantial extensions in their kernels in each release.

You should also not underestimate the psychological benefits of coding in a beautiful language.