[Pipet Devel] Re: Web interface

[Konrad Hinsen]

> I am not really anti-Perl, but Python can handle much of what Perl can, and I
> think we should not try to mix Perl and Python.  I don't know if there is a GD
> module for Python.  We'll have to look (Konrad, do you know of one?).  There

There is, but it's no longer maintained
(http://alumni.dgs.monash.edu.au/~richard/gdmodule/). The module of
choice for creating graphics in Python is the Python Imaging Library
(http://www.python.org/sigs/image-sig/Imaging.html). I have used it
for some small tasks and it works as advertised.

> Great!  But let's see what we can do using standard CGI over JavaScript (see
> my last message).  If we have to use it, then we have to.

Anyone interested in Web interfaces should have a look at Zope
(http://www.zope.org). All I have used myself is the module
ZPublisher, which is essentially an object-oriented CGI library (but I
promise that once you have used it you don't want to deal with plain
CGI any more).

Konrad.
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