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Why use Pylons?

Pylons combines the very best ideas from the worlds of Ruby, Python and Perl, providing a structured but extremely flexible Python web framework. It's also one of the first projects to leverage the emerging WSGI standard, which allows extensive re-use and flexibility — but only if you need it. Out of the box, Pylons aims to make web development fast, flexible and easy.

Find out more, Install the latest version or Start learning Pylons.

Plays Well With Others

Pylons is built on Paste and allows and encourages use of your favorite Python components and libraries:

• Models: SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, plain old DB-API
• Templating: Mako, Genshi, Jinja, Kid, Cheetah, or whatever you like - using Buffet
• AJAX: Rails-style WebHelpers based on Prototype, or Mochikit, jQuery, Dojo, Ext & more
• Request Dispatching: Routes by default, or plug in your favorite

Latest Tutorials

• Pylons Screencasts
• How to write a basic blog with Pylons
• Getting started with AJAX
• Porting Rails Flickr Example
• Production Deployment Using Apache, FastCGI and mod_rewrite

Useful Resources

You might be interested to see the production sites already using Pylons. If you are after specific information not found in the documentation you should have a look at the wiki which is fast becoming a very useful resource for Pylons programming. You might also consider adding an article of your own.