Pylons Pylons Web Framework Pylons ====== 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 * Utilizes a minimalist, component-based philosophy that makes it easy to expand on * 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. * Mako 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 0.9.7 described on this page is stable. There is also an unstable `develoment version <https://www.knowledgetap.com/hg/pylons-dev/archive/tip.tar.gz#egg=Pylons-dev>`_ of Pylons. Download and Installation ------------------------- Pylons can be installed with `Easy Install <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall>`_ by typing:: > easy_install Pylons Dependant packages are automatically installed from the `Pylons download page <http://pylonshq.com/download/>`_ . Ben Bangert, Philip Jenvey, James Gardner ce9bccdb2fbe8108b93e58d5aad99f9aa1c31696 0.9.7