Comments on: TurboGears bringing new people to Python

By: Matthew Bevan

Matthew Bevan — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:16:23 +0000

I’ve been investigating Python for about two months. I have yet to really write any complete applications, however, the rate at which I am managing to learn complex systems like TG is incredible to me. My boss looks at me funny when I speak so highly of a mere programming language.

Luckily, as TG development progresses (and thanks to SQLObject – my boss still doesn’t believe some of the things it does so easily) I’ll be able to use it for more and more. Thanks!

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:53:27 +0000

I’d love to talk about TurboGears at PyCon, and I do plan to submit a proposal sometime before the deadline.

By: Evelyn Mitchell

Evelyn Mitchell — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:59:24 +0000

Are you sumitting a tutorial or talk to PyCon 2006?

It’d be great to have you talk about TurboGears there.

By: John Speno

John Speno — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:14:13 +0000

I noticed this too on #cherrypy. We had people new to python and new to CP adn TG in the channel asking smart questions and you could hear the ‘Ah ah’ moments as they were enlightened.

By: warren

warren — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:32:38 +0000

turbogears was a natural choice for me because sqlobject is so nice. django and ruby on rails leave me scratching my head.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:14:40 +0000

I started learning Python about five years ago, and have been using it heavily for about two years. Most of my work is with Zope & Plone, but I recently developed an online sweepstakes promotion using the CP/SQLObject/Cheetah stack. Major joy compared to the many layers of stuff you have to deal with when developing non-trivial products for Plone!

Anyway, being a Plonish guy, I’m very accustomed to working with TAL. Cheetah was the least-enjoyable part of my project. Kid is very similar to TAL, so I’m almost certain the next generation of my sweepstakes app is lurking in TurboGears somewhere.

Thanks for TG!

By: phreaki

phreaki — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:44:29 +0000

I’m not at the top of python yet, so I’d be more of a 1/2 python coder still.

Then again, I wasted so much time on other ones first.