Upraise A small WSGI-based framework for web applications Upraise ~~~~~~~ **Upraise** is a thin web application framework. *Note:* I consider Upraise outdated. Don't use it anymore. It came into existence as a package of common code I redundantly had in my Web applications. However, meanwhile Werkzeug_ provides a great WSGI library that I use as a basis for simple framework layers in my applications. Check it out and dump Upraise ASAP. It is based on WSGI (see :PEP:`333` for more information) and utilizes the Paste_ library. This allows it to be deployed in various ways, including CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, mod_wsgi and as standalone HTTP server. This is not a full-stack framework that requires specific external components to be used with. Instead, any desired component should be easy to integrate into Upraise, including template engines (e.g. Genshi_, Mako_, or `Jinja 2`_), database abstraction layers/ORMs (e.g. SQLAlchemy_), URL dispatchers (e.g. Routes_, selector_, or Upraise's own, very simple dispatcher), authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g. AuthKit_, or barrel_), i18n toolkits (e.g. Babel_) or whatever other component one might wish to make use of. Not to mention lots of WSGI middlewares that are available, although spread over multiple packages and sometimes redundant. Upraise provides a basic, flexible framework that does require some better understanding of the components desired to be used, but comes without the overhead and maybe unsatisfying preselection that full-stack frameworks like TurboGears_, Django_ and, although to a lesser extent, Pylons_ imply. .. _Werkzeug: http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ .. _Paste: http://pythonpaste.org/ .. _Genshi: http://genshi.edgewall.org/ .. _Mako: http://www.makotemplates.org/ .. _Jinja 2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/ .. _SQLAlchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ .. _Routes: http://routes.groovie.org/ .. _selector: http://www.lukearno.com/projects/selector/ .. _AuthKit: http://authkit.org/ .. _barrel: http://www.lukearno.com/projects/barrel/ .. _Babel: http://babel.edgewall.org/ .. _TurboGears: http://turbogears.org/ .. _Django: http://www.djangoproject.com/ .. _Pylons: http://pylonshq.com/ Jochen Kupperschmidt 0.2