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Django's DRY suuuuuuuucks when you're getting started. It's basically all this magic that you can't understand without already knowing Django.

Why does get_attr get called? Oh because it begins with the word "get" and there's an attribute that defines a method field called "attr".

I use Django a lot and generally it's great. But I hate that you can't follow your code paths from start to finish on the surface. You have to know about how it works underneath. Meaning you can't just be a python + web server expert. You have to also be a Django expert. So I get non-Django experts reviewing code and they have no clue why things work or break.

Just an opinion. Not saying this is objectively wrong.

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People who feel this way usually use Flask instead. Worth checking out.

http://flask.pocoo.org/

Flask is great for smaller things where Django is far too verbose. Like single file webservers for basic stuff.

Its also for more complex stuff but then you have to grab additional libraries to do stuff like db management, migrations, serialization, etc.

Flask also has some, in my opinion, rather uncomfortablly unintuitive global scope stuff. Where responses aren't passed into the view function, they're available on the imported flask object.

Good to know. I haven't used Flask recently, I have used Express.js which is Node.js's version of Flask, and I really like how simple it is. Most apps these days seem to have a REST (or GraphQL) backend and dynamic (often React.js) frontend. Flask (and Flask-RESTful) would probably be a better fit for this type of app than Django.

Yeah don't let me dissuade you. Flask is a prime piece of software.

Wierd. Maybe it's just me, but I felt that way for the first 2 days.

I have made some really dynamic stuff (like 100 domains running off a single server with each of their data separate, and to add a new domain is a click away) . I can't imagine doing that with other frameworks

> get_attr

What the fuck is that?

Also, you might be interested in webpy

http://webpy.org

> “Django lets you write web apps in Django. TurboGears lets you write web apps in TurboGears. Web.py lets you write web apps in Python.” — Adam Atlas

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