Spyce is a powerful server engine that utilizes Python script to serve dynamic HTML pages. It offers a flexible and efficient way to handle server-side logic and create dynamic web content.
Apart from its primary purpose as a dynamic HTML generator, SPYCE also provides command-line tools for pre-processing static text or serving as a web-server proxy. The language supports multiple adapters, including FastCGI, mod_python, web server, CGI, and command line to cater to your specific requirement.
FastCGI is the default integration with Apache, which reduces the process startup overhead on each request, thereby enhancing the speed. If performance is your top priority, then mod_python (Apache module) is the fastest Spyce implementation currently available. However, it requires you to compile mod_python from sources since it needs to link it with the Python library found on your system.
Spyce's built-in web server is another fast alternative, but we highly discourage it for production settings. The language also supports regular CGI, but the slowest option, mainly for those who don't have enough web environment control.
Regarding compatibility requirements, Spyce can run on Python version 1.5 or higher and Apache version 1.3.x or higher. However, the language is primarily developed and tested using Python version 2.2.x and Apache version 2.0.x.
Spyce offers an updated release that includes several fixes and improvements, including but not limited to, better feedback on unsuccessful login, class-based exceptions in old-style tag exception handlers, and fixed render-through on spy: list and table tags.
In a nutshell, Spyce is an excellent server-side language ideal for web developers because of its high flexibility, compatibility, and efficiency.
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