Django or Zope?

Question

I want to create a website and I am confused which web framework to use. Please recommend me which framework is better: Django or Zope. I am using Python.

Answer 1

If you mean plain Zope2 by zope then I'd go for Django. Most interesting stuff in the Zope world takes place with either Plone or Grok (which is Zope3, which is actually quite different from Zope2).

Grok works nice with relational databases, Plone doesn't really, so if you depend on an RDBMS, either go with Grok or Django.

Zope and Plone have a rather steep learning curve so you'll get started more quickly with Django.

The largest downside about Django is, in my opinion, that it tries do do everything by itself (templating, object publishing, ORM, and so on) while there are many excellent existing components out there. If you want to be able to use your code / knowledge outside of the web framework you're using, consider Pylons or BFG

Many options, no clear answer, sorry :)

Answer 2

I have no idea what sort of website you're trying to create, so it's hard to recommend a specific framework. I'd recommend getting through some tutorials to see which one you like best (There's also pylons and TurboGears to pick from).

Django seems to be the most popular starting kit these days though.