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Suitability of Python for a Big Application?

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Mon Dec 13 04:44:28 EST 1999 
Boudewijn Rempt <boud at rempt.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> bobyu5 at mailcity.com wrote:

[snip lots of good advice by Boudewijn]

>> For 1) I thought I could solve this problem by using Zope - I get
>> instantly a GUI that is based upon web browsers. This eliminates those
>> annoying installation problems with customized DLLs as I found out using
>> VB development approach.

> I do find Zope a bit slow - even when I browse a Zope database on a
> machine on my local network.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this; Zope by itself isn't slow. I've
heard both good and bad performance reports about Zope, but with tuning it
can certainly be fast enough to handle even the slashdotting of a site.

[snip rest]

Regards,

Martijn
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