Pyramid (web framework)

Pyramid
Developer(s) Ben Bangert, James Gardner, Chris McDonough
Initial release December 2010 (2010-12)[1]
Stable release 1.1 / July 22, 2011; 7 months ago (2011-07-22)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Web application framework
License BSD License
Website www.pylonsproject.com

Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.[2]

Originally called "repoze.bfg", Pyramid gathered attention mostly in the Zope[3] and Plone community as the Open Society Institute's KARL project migrated from Plone to BFG.[4] In 2010 it was announced that the Pylons framework will move over to using BFG as a base in version 1.5.[5] As a result of the inclusion of BFG into the Pylons project, BFG was renamed Pyramid. [6]

Contents

Features

Pyramid is a minimalistic, platform-independent MVC object publishing web framework. It is persistence agnostic and is integrated both with SQL databases via SQLAlchemy, but also has integration with the Zope Object Database and other NoSQL databases, such as CouchDB.[2]

Pyramid also allows you to define routes that take regular expressions that map to objects, like most other frameworks. Like its fellow framework Zope, Pyramid also allows hierarchical object traversal, where each part of a URL is an object containing other objects, in a way that is similar to folders.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ History of Pyramid
  2. ^ a b Chris McDonough. "repoze.bfg introduction". http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/current/narr/introduction.html. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 
  3. ^ Gary Poster (2010-09-17). "Zope Summit, DZUG, repoze.bfg". http://codesinger.blogspot.com/2010/09/zope-summit-dzug-repozebfg.html. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 
  4. ^ Thomas Moroz, Chris Rossi & Calvin Hendryx-Parker (2009-10-28). KARL - large-scale Knowledge Management. Budapest, Hungary: Plone Conference 2009. http://plone.blip.tv/file/3037005/. Retrieved 2010-09-23. 
  5. ^ Ben Bangert (2010-09-18). "Emails explaining the Pylons 2 structure". http://sluggo.scrapping.cc/tmp/execution/emails.html. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 
  6. ^ "repoze.bfg is now Pyramid". http://www.plope.com/bfg-becomes-pyramid. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  7. ^ Wichert Akkerman (2009-10-28). Lessons from other frameworks. Budapest, Hungary: Plone Conference 2009. Event occurs at 25:50. http://plone.blip.tv/file/3224136/. Retrieved 2010-09-21. 

External links