I was saying that users can easy_install *Package* and get that package and all of its dependencies. This makes it much easier to use other code in your projects without worrying about difficulty installing. setuptools also makes sure that the correct version of a Python package is installed. Linux users get that from their distributions, but Mac and Windows users don’t and setuptools works on all.

I am the creator of TurboGears, which has gotten very popular since its release (more than 1,000 people on the high-traffic googlegroup). Part of the reason that TurboGears has been successful is that it helps out with many parts of building a web app and uses pre-existing components for the major parts (which is where easy_install has been exceedingly helpful!). It happens that a wiki example is the most popular demo I’ve done for TurboGears:
http://www.turbogears.org/docs/wiki20/

This is a great time to be doing web programming in Python, because there are many people focused on making development easier.

Regarding distribution: there’s a new package called setuptools that produces “Python Eggs”. Eggs provide good metadata about a package including dependencies. So, users on any platform can run “easy_install

I have though, looked at a video made by a user of Django, Tom Dyson. The video can be found at http://www.throwingbeans.org/django_screencasts.html.

You use the url “localhost:8080/pages/somepage” in your example, but your code implies that the url “localhost:8080/page/somepage” should be used. notice the difference (pages vs. page). In the former, you get the default web.py notfound page, in the latter, you get your behavior.

Thanks - fixed.

I find Zope 3 to be really really cool..

Sitepoint really needs a Python blogger - personally have zero experience of Zope but have read other good things about Zope3