So it turns out there are some painful edges if you start trying to do SQLAlchemy declarative ORM classes in an existing Django app. (For example, if you're gradually replacing the Django ORM in your code with Sqlalchemy ORM). It boils down to:
The django testrunner (or django-nose) changes the …
Django's settings.py is evil.
Why? Because in terms of security, it is a bomb waiting to go off. Typically your database settings go in there, and potentially other sensitive stuff (salts, service API keys, what have you).
By encouraging you to put a settings.py file in your project's …
Django as it is in the wild is not a web software framework. It is a web site framework.
(disclaimer re. complaining: http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagination.html )
What does this mean and why?
For some things, I love Django. It hits a particular sweet spot really well …
Django can be run under any WSGI server, which means you can use it in a WSGI pipeline. Deploying Django under mod_wsgi is well documented, but sometimes you want to test your WSGI pipeline on a local server without mucking with configuring nginx or apache, and/or try out some …
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