Myghty

Ruby's anonymous block capability is probably the main feature I find myself wishing Python had on more than one occasion. While the upcoming Python 2.5 PEP 323 provides for the “with” statement which will enhance generators to get a bit closer.

In a prior post on handling form data I covered how to easily populate a form using FormEncode/SQLObject and validate/save the data. One of the things I noted was that I had to take the HTML form output first, and use htmlfill with it to populate it with defaults and errors before displaying.

TextMate is a rather slick little text editor, with a bunch of cool automation stuff thats great for programmers. You've probably already seen it if you've watched any of those demo movies for some of the latest web frameworks.

I've been programming web sites for many years, and have yet to come across a templating language as appealing as Mason / Myghty. To avoid confusion I'm going to talk about Myghty, but since its a direct port of Mason (plus some MVC stuff) all of my comments apply to Mason as well (unless otherwise noted).

Mmm, tasty, a headline of P-word's. Recently Ian Bicking went on a bit of a release spree with a whole bunch of goodness that I'm way too lazy to link to in this paragraph.

I've been doing a lot of comparisons and research into various Python web frameworks lately, mainly focused on MVC oriented frameworks. Some of them have templating languages they come with, some not so much.

Routes 0.2 has been released. The change-log is pitifully short: Added prefix option Fixed Python 2.3 bug with thread-local singleton But hey, its a small package to begin with so what the heck.

On many occasions, its quite useful when developing web applications to have the webapp know whether its in a production/development/testing environment. Rails builds this into the framework and its rather easy to add this toggle throughout a Myghty webapp (or some other Python web framework) as well.

Please Note: Reading the last post would help greatly for this one, and this post does end up comparing aspects of Django with Rails in terms of making decisions rather than actual usage.

Myghty is a powerful web application framework that builds on the strengths of Perl's Mason using my favorite language, Python. While Myghty also handles page templating, it has some very powerful features that make it a full fledged framework in my opinion.