Pylons 0.8

Pylons Web Framework

The Pylons web framework is aimed at making webapps and large programmatic website development in Python easy. Several key points:

• A framework to make writing web applications in Python easy

• Inspired by Rails and TurboGears

• Utilizes a minimalist, component-based philosophy that makes it easy to expand on

• Built mainly as a customization of Myghty with Routes and Paste integration

• Harness existing knowledge about Python

Knowing Python makes Pylons easy

Pylons makes it easy to expand on your knowledge of Python to master Pylons for web development. Using a MVC style dispath, Python knowledge is used at various levels:

• The Controller is just a basic Python class, called for each request. Customizing the response is as easy as overriding __call__ to make your webapp work how you want.

• Myghty templating compiles directly to Python byte-code for speed and utilizes Python for template control rather than creating its own template syntax for “for, while, etc”

Current Status

Pylons is currently quite stable (built mostly with the mature Myghty package), and is being used in production environments. Dependant packages are automatically installed from the following URL:

• Dependant Packages svn