Django for a simple web application

Question

I'm developing an app (an API) in python and I would like to offer some of its functionality through a web interface (like web services do). I've been looking at django, but I don't know if really fits well in my idea. I only want to create a web page that invokes to my API methods in order to acomplish the functionality that offers that web page. But, after followed the tutorial, I feel a little confused about the point of django. It seems to me to be more related with an ORM than a classic web application.

Is django a solution so heavy for such a simple development (as I mentioned, make calls to my API through the web)? Do I always have to use a database?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I love django but there is an lot of it to get your head around! If you don't want the database bit, focus on urls.py and views.py that will process your urls and return the info you want as an http response.

eg. urls.py

urlpatterns += patterns('myapp.views',

    url(r'^getstuff/$', 'getstuff' ),
)

in views.py

def getstuff(request):

   do whatever in python

   return HttpResponse(stuff to return)