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It works until you want to use PIL or LXML and need to compile a python library with native extensions, or if you want to use a datastore other than google's.

At least, you couldn't do those things a few years ago.



Your point about compiled python libraries is correct in principle, but it's worth pointing out the GAE python comes with PIL and LXML (and a bunch of other libraries) pre-installed these days:

See https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/li... for a complete list.

But,yea if you need a library that's not on that list and uses native extensions, then you're kind of screwed.


Oh, that's cool. It makes GAE a lot more appealing.




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