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The popularity of Python language is growing. In this article we review ten most interesting Python frameworks.

Django

Django is most popular Python web framework hich loosely follows the model-view-controller design pattern. It was originally developed to manage several news-oriented sites for The World Company of Lawrence, Kansas, and was released publicly under a BSD license in July 2005

web2py

Free and open source full-stack enterprise framework for agile development of secure database-driven web-based applications, written and programmable in Python created by Massimo Di Pierro.

Pylons

Pylons is a lightweight web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development. It 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.

The Quixote Web Framework

Quixote is a simple yet flexible and powerful framework for writing Web-based applications using Python.

Zope

Zope is a free and open-source, object-oriented web application server written in the Python programming language. Zope stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment." It can be almost fully managed with a web-based user interface. Zope publishes on the web Python objects that are typically persisted in an object database, ZODB. Basic object types, such as documents, images, and page templates, are available for the user to create and manage through the web. Specialized object types, such as wikis, blogs, and photo galleries, are available as third-party add-ons (called products), and there is a thriving community of small businesses creating custom web applications as Zope products.

TurboGears

TurboGears is a Python web application framework consisting of several underlying components such as MochiKit, SQLObject, CherryPy and Kid. TurboGears was created in 2005 by Kevin Dangoor as the framework behind the as yet unreleased Zesty News product.

Webware

Webware for Python is a suite of Python packages and tools for developing object-oriented, web-based applications. The suite uses well known design patterns and includes a fast Application Server, Servlets, Python Server Pages (PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task Scheduling, Session Management, and many other features. Webware is very modular and easily extended. Webware for Python is well proven and platform-independent. It is compatible with multiple web servers, database servers and operating systems.

CherryPY

CherryPy is a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework. CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This results in smaller source code developed in less time.

Porcupine

Porcupine is a Python based web application server that provides an object oriented web application framework for developing Rich Internet Applications rapidly. Many of the tasks required for building web applications as you know them, are either eliminated or simplified. For instance, when developing a Porcupine application you don't have to design a relational database. You only have to design and implement your business objects as Python classes, using the building blocks provided by the framework (datatypes). Porcupine integrates an in-process native object database along with the Porcupine Object Query Language; no mapping is required.

Karrigell

Karrigell is a flexible Python web framework, with a clear and intuitive syntax. It is independant from any database, ORM or templating engine, and lets the programmer choose between a variety of coding styles. The package includes a powerful built-in web server, so there's no need to download, install and configure a separate one, and a pure-Python database engine, PyDbLite, which is used for the demos.Karrigell can be configured to work with external web servers (Apache, Xitami, LightTPD) ; the scripts can use all the databases for which a Python API exists (sqlite, mySql, PostGreSQL, ZODB, etc). An application, InstantSite, is provided to easily create and edit MySQL databases and generate scripts that handle the usual CRUD operations on database tables

Spyce

Spyce is technology similar to PHP that can be used to embed Python code into webpages. Spyce is free software, distributed under a BSD-style licence, with some additional restrictions about documentation notices.

Drupy

Drupy is a Python port of the Drupal content management system built on Django. Drupy had previously been a direct PHP-to-Python port of Drupal, but this had proven to be quite unmanageable. Drupy has taken a new direction in which it is being built on top of the Django Framework. This will offer maximum stability and a much more efficient development cycle.

Zine

Zine is a weblog engine written in Python. It's Open Source, free and developed with a focus on security and usability.

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