Pylons – application framework

Last Updated on July 12, 2021

Pylons is an open source application framework written in Python.

This framework combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It is also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility, but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast, flexible and easy.

It makes real-world web application development and deployment more fun, more predictable, and more productive.

Features include:

• Support for Ajax.
• Controller for the MVC framework.
• Testing framework via noise.
• Extensively uses the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote reusability and to separate functionality into distinct modules.
• Routes, a Python reimplementation of Ruby on Rails’ URL dispatching, although any WSGI-compatible URL dispatcher can be used.
• Template frameworks – pluggable: Mako, Genshi, Myghty, Kid, and others.
• Caching frameworks – Beaker cache.
• ORM-agnostic.
• Internationalization support.

Website: pylonsproject.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Ben Bangert, James Gardner
License: BSD License

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