Python Pyramid Learning Resource [closed]

Question

I have trid learning the framework with the help of the book, The Pyramid Web Application Development Framework. I have somewhat managed to understand up-to URL Dispatch. But I still find it difficult to grab some concepts.

Can you lead me to some easy-for-newbie tutorials? Do I need previous experience of other web frameworks?

Answer 1

I've been doing web dev for > 15 years, and > 10 with Python, and I found some of the concepts in Pyramid hard to understand, too.

I'd suggest just pushing through; copy-n-paste if you have to, and keep on working. I'm noticing that concepts are 'gelling' for me after the fact, and what I used to find confusing I now take for granted. Perhaps the ideas merely need to soak in?

The organization of the code, and its founding philosophies are somewhat more abstract and perhaps therefore more difficult than I am used to from other frameworks, but I am really enjoying the flexibility. In particular, there seems to always be like 5 ways to do something, all of equal merit, when in Python we are used to having some ways more "blessed" than others.

It just a lot to wrap your head around. So, I suppose my short-term suggestion is not to try. Just build some things, ask questions when you get stuck, and be comfortable with the discomfort of not knowing how every little bit of Pyramid works...

I would also recommend that you resist the urge to take its flexibility as an opportunity to force it to behave more like some other system(s) that you may be familiar with... don't build a translation layer on top. Then you'll be fighting the code rather than getting your work done, and you'll end up deeper into the guts than you might want to be at this point.

I hope this helps.