FormEncode is a validation and form generation package. The validation can be
used separately from the form generation. The validation works on compound data
structures, with all parts being nestable. It is separate from HTTP or any
other input mechanism.
BigBlueButton enables universities and colleges to deliver
a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
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
* Harness existing knowledge about Python
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"
Pyramid is a small, fast, down-to-earth Python web application
development framework. It is developed as part of the Pylons Project.
The major feature additions in Pyramid 1.0 are:
* New name and branding association with the Pylons Project.
* BFG conversion script
* Paster template improvements
* Terminology changes
* Better platform compatibility and support
* Direct built-in support for the Mako templating language.
* Built-in support for sessions.
* Updated URL dispatch features
* Better imperative extensibility
* ZCML externalized
* Better support for global template variables during rendering
* View mappers
* Testing system improvements
* Authentication support improvements
* Documentation improvements
RhodeCode is a fast and powerful management tool for Mercurial and GIT with a
built in push/pull server and full text search and code-review. It works on
http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with the ability
to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory. RhodeCode also provides simple API
so it.s easy integrable with existing external systems.
RhodeCode is similar in some respects to github or bitbucket, however RhodeCode
can be run as standalone hosted application on your own server. It is open
source and donation ware and focuses more on providing a customized, self
administered interface for Mercurial and GIT repositories.
lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server which
has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very
low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of
cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,
URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software
for every server that is suffering load problems.
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and
tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web
framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional
tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking
infrastructure.
The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and
certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably
fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll or kqueue, it can handle
thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for
real-time web services. We built the web server specifically to handle
FriendFeed's real-time features - every active user of FriendFeed maintains an
open connection to the FriendFeed servers.
TurboGears brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy
to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit
JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers
(CherryPy) to the back end (SQLObject).
The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration
with these tools without losing touch with the communities that already exist
around those tools.
TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications.
TurboGears 2 is a reinvention of the TurboGears project to take
advantage of new components, and to provide a fully customizable
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) stack. From the beginning
TurboGears was designed to be a Full Stack framework built from
best-of-breed components. New components have been released which
improved on the ones in the original TGstack, and the Python web
world has been increasingly designed around WSGI.
This has enabled a whole new world of reuse, and TG2 is designed
to take advantage of this fact in order to make a framework which
provides easy to use, productive defaults, while still providing
flexibility where it is useful.
TG2 represents a change from some of the components in TurboGears 1,
but we have now invested in a set of components that we think will
continue to be at the center of python web development for years to
come.
Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of
web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning,
benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.
Pylot generates concurrent load (HTTP Requests), verifies server responses,
and produces reports with metrics. Tests suites are executed and monitored
from a GUI or shell/console.