What's been happening in the world of WSGI

Good to see some activity in the development of WSGI component based microframeworks.

I have been following Ben Bangert and James Gardners' work on Pylons which is based on Myghty, with a custom Resolver, full Paste and WSGI integration. Haven't had a play with it yet, but have an idea for a project where Pylons may be the perfect fit.

Also Julian Krause has just released RhubarbTart, a light object publishing web framework built on WSGI and Paste. It's object publishing model is similar to CherryPy. Since it built on Paste, RhubardTart makes the most of Paste's selection of WSGI middleware components to provide the other functionality expected of a web framework. So if have been using CherryPy because of it's ease in exposing object methods, but want to customise the component stack you use for a web project, have a look at RhubarbTart.

Then again, if you want to create your own WSGI/Paste framework, Ian Bickings has created a great tutorial to get you started. If you have a problem with understanding what WSGI/Paste is all about, read the tutorial, you will be enlightened.

And even Guido this week has nice things to say about WSGI - 'Maybe the current crop of Python web frameworks (as well as Rails BTW) have it all wrong. Maybe the WSGI folks are the only ones who are "getting" it.'

One of the joys of programming in Python is "batteries included" and the fact I get to pick which batteries to use to help me solve the programming task at hand. With WSGI I get the freedom to pick what components I want use in the HTTP request/response area for a web project, and get to focus on solving the actual programming problem or challenge.