Web Components

For use with some of the frameworks listed on WebFrameworks, the components/libraries/toolkits on this page often attempt to solve common problems in a way that can work with more than one particular framework; the idea being that you choose the component which does a particular job and it hopefully works with the framework you're developing your application in.

Authorisation Toolkits

These allow you to add authorisation to your web applications.

• [http://authkit.org/ AuthKit] is a WSGI framework that provides a structure for implementing your own authorisation and authentication system.

• [http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/python/#auth Auth modules] - a module collection for authentication purposes

• [http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#dataenc Dataenc] - allows secure and time limited logins to be encoded into Web pages for use with Web applications

• [http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/305288 HTTP basic authentication example]

Form Handling

• [http://formencode.org/ FormEncode] - is a validation and form generation package.

• [http://formbuild.org/ FormBuild] - FormBuild is a package designed to help with the generation of HTML form components.

• [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/twForms/ twForms] - Web Widgets for building and validating forms.

Request Dispatchers

A dispatcher takes the requests (i.e. the URL that a user types in) and then provides the response (i.e. the web application that creates the webpage that the user sees).

• [http://routes.groovie.org/ Routes] is a Python re-implementation of the Rails routes system for mapping URL's to Controllers/Actions and generating URL's. Routes makes it easy to create pretty and concise URL's that are RESTful with little effort.

• [http://lukearno.com/projects/selector/ selector] - provides WSGI middleware for "RESTful" mapping of URL paths to WSGI applications.

• [http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/colubrid/ Colubrid] is a WSGI publisher which simplifies Python web developement.If you've ever created a WSGI application without a framework of an request handler you know how hard this can be.

Templating Engines

Templating engines allow you to separate your application code from the presentation. Many of these engines can be used alone or within a high-level framework.

• [http://www.myghty.org/ Myghty ] (1.0 Released 2006-01-27) is a Python based templating framework originally based on HTML::Mason

• [http://www.makotemplates.org/ Mako] is an all-new templating engine which represents the best ideas of Myghty distilled into a completely-rewritten and updated API and syntax.

• [http://www.thomas-lotze.de/en/software/ophelia/ Ophelia] (0.3 Released 2007-07-06) Generates XHTML pages from TAL templates. This avoids repetitive code, allows the site content to reside in the file system instead of a database, and lets Python scripts make the content dynamic.

• ["JonsPythonModules"] (1.06 Released 2004-04-11) a set of simple yet powerful multi-threaded object-oriented CGI/FastCGI/mod_python/html-templating modules for Python

• [http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ Cheetah] - Cheetah is a Python-powered template engine and code generator. It may be used as a standalone utility or combined with other tools.

• [http://genshi.edgewall.org/ Genshi] is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for parsing, generating, and processing HTML, XML or other textual content for output generation on the web.