Python on Tahir Hashmi

PHP vs. Python for Web Apps

mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:00:42 +0000

These days, more and more people ask the Python vs. PHP question when they start out with a web application from scratch. I’ve developed PHP applications for 5 years but for the last couple of years I’ve been doing Python. This post is meant to note some of my observations. If you don’t want to read the whole of it, my opinion — opinion — is to stick with PHP for dishing out your *ML. Use Python in the back-end, if you must.

MySQLdb Leaks Memory

mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:32:30 +0000

Whenever people search for a Python library for MySQL, they get directed to MySQL for Python. However, there are some nasties hidden in it. Searching for “mysql python memory leaks” results in a few links which suggest that using Unicode causes memory leaks with the library.

Today, however, I found another cause for MySQLdb memory leaks, while debugging a leaky Python daemon at work — database errors.

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