You can run the same Albatross script as a CGI or from mod_python, or even from the command line, with the following trick:

        from albatross import SimpleSessionFileApp, SessionFileAppContext
        try:
            from albatross.apacheapp import Request # This will fail if we are not inside mod_python
            cgi = 0
        except ImportError:
            from albatross.cgiapp import Request
            cgi = 1

        # Page classes, application/context objects, etc here

        app = App()

        def handler(req):
           '''Called from mod_python - turn a mod_python req into an Albatross Request'''
            return do_handler(Request(req))

        def do_handler(r):
           '''Called with an Albatross Request object'''
            return app.run(r)

        if cgi:
            do_handler(Request())

It's actually even easier than that:

app = App()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    # CGI
    from albatross import cgiapp
    app.run(cgiapp.Request())
else:
    # mod_python
    from albatross import apacheapp
    def handler(req):
        return app.run(apacheapp.Request(req))

But which do people prefer?

-- Matt