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   version:: 2.7.8 (''[[Date(2002-05-19T00:00:00)]]'')    stable version for Apache 1.*:: 2.7.10 (''[[Date(2004-01-22T00:00:00)]]'')
   stable version for Apache 2.*:: 3.1.3 (''[[Date(2004-02-25T00:00:00)]]'')
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   platforms:: Apache 1.3 (with Apache 2 support forthcoming)
   Python versions:: Python 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1
   platforms:: Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0
   Python versions:: Python 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1, mod_python 3.* requires 2.2.1
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mod_python provides no built-in session support. It has a very straightforward and flexible system for basic authentication, allowing access rules to be configured at the module and function level. mod_python provides no built-in session support. JonsPythonModules works with mod_python, however, and can do session management as well as templating and database pooling. mod_python has a very straightforward and flexible system for basic authentication, allowing access rules to be configured at the module and function level.
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Mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. With mod_python you can write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals. mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. With mod_python you can write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals.
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mod_python has been "donated" to the Apache Software Foundation. Here is author Gregory Trubetskoy's official statement as of Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002:

It is my pleasure to announce that Mod_Python has been donated to the
Apache Software Foundation, and is now a subproject of the httpd server
project (see http://httpd.apache.org/).

I am grateful to ASF for accepting this donation and committing resources
to further the support of Mod_Python. I believe that this action will
advance the development of Mod_Python, resulting in an ultimately better
and more popular tool for Python developers. I also believe it will serve
to better position Python as a language of choice for web development, a
need that has been expressed by many.

There are no implications to the current Mod_Python users - the license is
the same with the sole difference in that the copyright belongs to ASF
now.

As a consequense of the donation, the CVS repository is now hosted on
cvs.apache.org. Do not use the SourceForge repository anymore, it will
soon be removed.

There will also be website and mailing changes, but the details are still
being finalized and will be announced when ready.

Regards,

Grisha Trubetskoy
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A framework for WebProgramming.

Masthead

URL

http://www.modpython.org/

stable version for Apache 1.*

2.7.10 (Date(2004-01-22T00:00:00))

stable version for Apache 2.*

3.1.3 (Date(2004-02-25T00:00:00))

licence
The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
platforms
Apache 1.3, Apache 2.0
Python versions
Python 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1, mod_python 3.* requires 2.2.1

Deployment Platforms

Linux and Windows. RPMs available.

Suitability

mod_python can be used to develop fast and small web tools and applications, and as part of larger custom application frameworks. It provides an object publishing mechanism similar to (but much simpler than) Zope, and a very clean mapping from URLs to functions. This makes it especially suitable for building web-accessible libraries using HTTP GET/POST as function call serialization.

Development Interfaces

Your friendly text editor.

Environment Access

mod_python provides a similar API to mod_perl, allowing low-level access to Apache's request handling mechanisms.

Session, Identification and Authentication

mod_python provides no built-in session support. JonsPythonModules works with mod_python, however, and can do session management as well as templating and database pooling. mod_python has a very straightforward and flexible system for basic authentication, allowing access rules to be configured at the module and function level.

Persistence Support

Scripts remain in memory between page loads. The Python interpreter can be configured to run per-site or per-directory, allowing the scope of the persistence to be limited as necessary.

Presentation Support

None. mod_python provides no built-in templating system, although it is not difficult to incorporate one.

InTheirOwnWords

mod_python is an Apache module that embeds the Python interpreter within the server. With mod_python you can write web-based applications in Python that will run many times faster than traditional CGI and will have access to advanced features such as ability to retain database connections and other data between hits and access to Apache internals.

Comments

mod_python has been "donated" to the Apache Software Foundation. Here is author Gregory Trubetskoy's official statement as of Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002:

It is my pleasure to announce that Mod_Python has been donated to the Apache Software Foundation, and is now a subproject of the httpd server project (see http://httpd.apache.org/).

I am grateful to ASF for accepting this donation and committing resources to further the support of Mod_Python. I believe that this action will advance the development of Mod_Python, resulting in an ultimately better and more popular tool for Python developers. I also believe it will serve to better position Python as a language of choice for web development, a need that has been expressed by many.

There are no implications to the current Mod_Python users - the license is the same with the sole difference in that the copyright belongs to ASF now.

As a consequense of the donation, the CVS repository is now hosted on cvs.apache.org. Do not use the SourceForge repository anymore, it will soon be removed.

There will also be website and mailing changes, but the details are still being finalized and will be announced when ready.

Regards,

Grisha Trubetskoy

Hosting

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