python on snails

in a hysterical fit of NIH-insanity, in a desire to have a nice templating language for building my second vanity site, sullenbeaver.com, i decided that i was not going to go with any existing web frameworks, but instead, devise my own.

to that end, i have created python on snails, because i don't want to learn ruby and django has problems.

i use django extensively at work and find its template language to be horrendously clunky, and, now that i'm designing my own framework, i'm finding lots of other kludgy crap in django. mabye it's because they had to support an older python version, or maybe a million things, but i feel so far that my design is cleaner and more useable.

on the other hand, mine doesn't do much : initially i just wanted templates, those took a day to get working properly (and, i might add, more powerfully than django's). now i'm working on data models. perhaps if i had to interact with a database (i don't!) i'd better appreciate the workings of django.

the fact that i dont want db access is a large reason why i bothered with PoS (hah! i hadn't realized the abbreviation until just now, which makes my non-alliterative choice all the more appropriate).

still, since evidently i kind of know what i'm doing, it seems my api could easily have a db smooshed onto its backside.