The peeps in #python.web have put together a list of reasons why you should not use mod_python.

FWIW, I’ve tried both Apache/mod_python and Lighttpd/SCGI, and found mod_python to be rather a pain to configure and maintain.

Adrian Holovaty (of Django fame) writes about how he is using Amazon S3 to serve media files. Interesting read, including some steps to get started. Be sure to check out the comments attached to the post.

Graham Dumpleton has a really nice beginner’s guide to mod_python. He starts with getting it loaded into Apache, and covers basic content handlers, global configuration, error logs, and where to go next.

In case you missed it, Reddit rewrote their site in Python (formerly Lisp). Now there’s apparently something called web.py that makes web apps because “everything else out there sucked.”

There’s even a tutorial available.

I’ll leave the growing number of python web frameworks vs. tribble comparison as an exercise for the reader.

Hopfully this will be my last post related to my previously broken Django install.

As per Adrian’s suggestions (see comments), I looked for any .pyc files in the Django and removed them as follows:

metis# cd /usr/local/django/django_src/django metis# find -name "*.pyc" | xargs rm
Python scripts get compiled into bytecode (.pyc) files when they are run, but these files are not managed by SVN. So that can cause problems when performing updates.

Unfortunately, however, this did not fix my problem…

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