Good thing!

A few months ago Google launched a service called, google app engine. What app engine does is that it allows developers to create web services that was hosted in and made use of googles infrastructure. They were giving 500 mb of space with generous data transfer limits , all for free.
And the good news was that , it had to be programmed in Python.

When I first heard of python , like 5 or 6 years ago , I thought it was a major programming language for the web. Later I played a bit with Zope web application framework for python also. But , there was a big problem with using
python . Hosts for python were difficult to get and expensive. the once who had , often had ancient versions. I felt that python was not easy for web development , since its rather difficult to get a host to put the things on line.

Now , google has given a shot in the arm for python , anybody can now have their python based web application running on the google app engine.

Initially app engine hosting was given only to the first 10000 developers who signed up , but now anyone can sign up for the good stuff here.