James Gardner and myself are pleased to announce release 0.8 of Pylons. 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 ------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
