[mod_python] How to make a handler for static files?

Troy,

Thanks for the PyCon report, and the mod_python flag waving while you 
were there. :)

Jim

Troy Kruthoff wrote:
> Graham,
> 
> I attended (in fact, I almost killed Scott (the originator of this
> thread) driving to a book party).
> 
> I was surprised that there were no sessions specifically about
> mod_python, so I added a BoF meeting (posted the announcement to this
> group).  About 10 people showed up and we talked mostly about how to
> successfully deploy mod_python.  Of the group, only a couple of people
> were actually using mod_python, the rest were seeking additional
> information.  Kevin Lewandowski reported his www.discogs.com site at 2
> million page views (a month I think?) running mod_python on 4
> load-balanced servers.
> 
> The django guys were at the conference (but not the BoF), presented a
> couple topics/sessions, and recommended mod_python for deployment.
> 
> American Greeting also presented a session, I'll have to check my
> notes, but they run a lot of traffic through their online greeting
> services.  However, I asked during the Q & A about their use of
> mod_python, and they do not use it on their main web sites.
> 
> Being new to Python and mod_python and my first PyCon, I can say that
> mod_python seems to be known by those doing web-development with
> Python.  However, there does not seem to be any references to it being
> used for heavy lifting.  I recently had a chat with the co-creator of
> feedlounge.com (a pure Python Ajax application) about their
> experiences with mod_python (they currently are not using it, do to
> ref issues with SQLObject) and he mentioned taking another look at it
> appears updates are coming faster.  Some people at the BoF were not
> aware that mod_python development is as active as it is.
> 
> For what it is worth, I have recently chosen mod_python for the next
> generation of my company's product (a high traffic, b2b web
> application).  When complete, I hope it will be a great reference site
> for others evaluating mod_python.  Early tests show mod_python easliy
> handling 500 reqs/sec with the worker and event MPM's serving 100%
> db-backed dynamic content on modest hardware.  We created and benched
> the same part of our application in PHP and got 200 reqs/sec, 300 with
> opcode caching.  Performance isn't even our primary decision point,
> but it is nice to know mod_python has it nailed.
>