or, more aptly put, Web Server Programming

See also:

• WebClientProgramming

• DatabaseProgramming (guidance on available DatabaseInterfaces and related tools)

• ["PythonAndJ2EE"] (comparison of various frameworks to J2EE)

This topic guide links to the frameworks and templating systems available for Web programming in Python.

To Do

• The templating systems should really get a different page layout, showing examples etc.
• describe PHP and Java in the same format as quite a few will want to compare to them anyway

• Is there any interest in a WebProgrammingShootOut?

Editor: DanielDittmar (this means only that I will adapt the entries to changes in the WebProgrammingTemplate and that I will try to keep the version entries current)

Python-based

The listing is up-to-date as of 2003-02-11

Application Frameworks

• ["Albatross"]

• CherryPy

• ["Draco"]

• [http://jotweb.tummy.com/ JOTWeb]

• ["Karrigell"]

• [http://pywork.sf.net PyWork]

• SkunkWeb

• [http://snakelets.sourceforge.net/ Snakelets]

• ["Quixote"]

• TwistedMatrix

• [http://www.webtk.org/ WebTK]

• ["Webware"]
• ["Zope"]

Variable Insertion-Replacement Templating Applications (Pre-processors)

• ["Castalian"]
• ["Cheetah"]

• CubicTemp

• JonsPythonModules

• ["pso"]
• ["Spyce"]

• [http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc]

• [http://www.nthwave.net/elements/ Elements]

• EmPy

• [http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmltemplate.html HTMLTemplate]

• [http://htmltmpl.sourceforge.net/ htmltmpl]

• [http://www.entrian.com/PyMeld PyMeld]

• [http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/ SimpleTAL]

• [http://www.execulink.com/~robin1/wasp/readme.html WASP]

• [http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/ XIST]

• [http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52305 YAPTU]

Embedding the Python Interpreter into HTTP (Web) Servers

• ModPython for Apache

• ["PyWX"] for AOLServer

Web-based XML processing Engines

• ["4Suite"]
• ["maki"]

HTML Shorthand Processors

The libraries in this section implement simpler markup languages that can be automatically converted to HTML. This lets you avoid having to write HTML by hand.

• [http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc]

• ReStructuredText

• PyTextile

Jython-accessible Java toolkits

Servlet-like Engines

• [http://www.webmacro.org/ WebMacro]

• [http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/index.html Velocity]

Variable Insertion-Replacement Templating Applications (Pre-processors)

• [http://java.sun.com/products/jsp Java Server Pages, JSP]

• [http://freemarker.org/index.html FreeMarker] (with Jython data binding)

Python-accessible C toolkits

• ClearSilver (HTML generation)

Related Links

The Web Framework Shootout at http://colorstudy.com/docs/shootout.html also covers several of these frameworks.

This topic guide started out as a word by word copy of PaulBoddie's [http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/web_frameworks.html Python Web Frameworks Overview].

OriginalWebProgrammingClassification is an older listing of Python-related web tools, and is now out of date and only of historical interest.

Notes on Editing

Opinions based on experience are welcome, but framework or templating system authors should sign their comments with InTheirOwnWords to admit to a certain bias.

The rather strict format of the main entries (described in WebProgrammingTemplateHelp) should not been seen as a limit. Feel free to add new pages containing examples, direct comparisons etc.

When adding new entries choose WebProgrammingTemplate when creating the page.