Rapid Web Development
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Pylons is a modern full-stack Python web development framework that
is frequently compared to Ruby on Rails since it uses similar
methodologies and includes ports and re-implementations of useful
Rails components such as Routes and AJAX Helpers.
By combining ideas from Mason, TurboGears Django, and various Python
frameworks with a highly extensible API, Pylons provides a toolset
that is very flexible and natural for the Python developer to use.
=== Full Web Server Gateway Interface Stack ===
Pylons is based on Paste from the ground up. Its heavy use of WSGI
wherever possible makes for a sophisticated yet highly flexible
system that helps you to get started quickly and enables you to get
at the heart of what's going on when you need to.
=== Powerful URL Design ===
Pylons integrates Routes to provide a powerful system for designing
simple, cruft-free URLs that are as carefully laid out as your
application.
=== Flexible Templates ===
Pylons uses Myghty templates by default for their power, simplicity
and speed but also supports Cheetah and Kid and can be also be used
with any Buffet-compatible template language. Choose the templating
system that best suits the way you work.
=== Helper Functions ===
Pylons web helpers provide a full range of functions that can be used
throughout your application and templates so that you don't need to
reinvent the wheel for common tasks. All the helpers from Rails are
available including full AJAX support and pagination compatible with
lists and popular ORM's like SQLObject and SQLAlchemy.
=== Interactive Debugging ===
The speed you can develop an application depends a lot on the speed
you can correct problems. Pylons error handling middleware provides
code snippets, value tables, extra application data and uses AJAX to
provide an interactive Python prompt that you can use at any point in
the error traceback to track down and solve problems fast.
=== Other Features in Brief ===
Pure Python, 2.3.5 and 2.4 compatible tested on Windows/MacOS/Linux/
BSD, deploy via the stand alone server or CGI/FastCGI/SCGI/mod_python
on Apache, Lighttpd or other servers, internationalization support,
database integration, caching, built-in testing, automatic
documentation via Pudge, extensible helper API, JSON support,
traceback emails, egg and easy_install compatible, helpful and
knowledgeable community.
Locations
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Web: http://pylonshq.com/install/
Easy Install: easy_install -f http://pylonshq.com/download/ Pylons
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss
Developers: Ben Bangert, James Gardner and many others
If you want to get serious about Python web development, get Pylons
and get started: http://pylonshq.com/docs/0.8/getting_started.html
-Ben Bangert