Tag Archives: webpy

Dumb App Engine Shortcuts

I like using App Engine’s webapp framework. It’s very simple and similar to the web.py framework. However, simple tasks such as outputting data or rendering templates require way too much boilerplate text. For example, to output a rendered template, you must type:

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template_values = {
‘greetings’: greetings,
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(Another) simple web.py wiki

After spending considerable time learning Django, I stumbled upon another Python framework called web.py. Web.py is much simpler than Django and has far fewer built in features. For example, web.py has no built in object relational mapper, automatic admin site, or authentication classes. These features can be incredibly useful (and time-saving), but are not [...]