Pylons: Our Web Framework of Choice

Pylons is a modern web application framework that is similar in concept to Ruby-on-Rails. Pylons is a best-of-breed solution that was built from the ground-up atop the WSGI standard component architecture for Python-based server software.

Pylons pulls together a number of powerful libraries for web development, including:

• SQLAlchemy for database integration
• Mako for page templating
• Routes for mapping URLs to application functionality
• ToscaWidgets to manage form submission and validation
• AuthKit to manage application security (i.e. Authentication and Authorization)

Pylons allows us to quickly build standard web-based applications.