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Why this project ?
Well, the first thing is that I like Python as my favorite one-for-all
language.
The second is, that I'm developing some small websites, and I wanted to do
the CGI scripting with Python. That means writing some scripts to
administrate simple tables in the database, presenting them in a
form, also with restricted access.
(An example for what I needed is: Presenting News, written by some
group leaders, contained in one MySQL-Table).
As I had everytime the same problem (Defining the table fields, defining the
form, writing the scripts to input/update/delete), I tried to create a more
general solution in PHP, which could be easily be customized for new
tables. This resulted in unreadable and unmaintainable code (yes, possibly I
did not understand the right usage of this language).
Then I searched in the Python-World and found the well-known and everywhere
praised Webware. The WebKit looks very interesting and might be a solid
thing, but the parts that I needed (MiddleKit and UserKit) were over a long
time reported as "alpha" and "pre-alpha", and
documentation was rare or unreadable or only the phrase: "Read the
source" . Trying to understand the code which is sophisticated on one
hand but filled with todo-comments and ideas for changes on the other hand
ended only in frustration and the awareness that the relation between
installation, setup and programming of Webware would be very disproportional
to the very little aims I wanted to achieve.
This was when the idea for little Web Tools arised
little Web Tools is (shall once be) a collection of
simple and easy to use Python-CGI-Scripts and Utilities, which
shall help creators of small web sites who want to do simple
Python-CGI scripting, e.g. Database Access, without having to install
Web Application Servers or similar elephants.
little Web Tools will be strongly modularized, so that you can decide
which part of the software you want to use, especially as a basis for
own development.
Creating documentation and examples is a fundamental point of
the project's concept, to allow also developers with less time or
less expierince to understand the usage and possibilities of the
software without having to read all the sources and comments from
the very beginning.
Base concept is: Keep it as simple as possible
little Web Tools will contain easy to use and easy to extend
base classes for database access, form presentation, authentification,
mail delivery, and the glue between that.
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