Akhet

Version:1.0, released 2011-04-04 PyPI:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Akhet Docs:http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/akhet/dev/ Source:https://bitbucket.org/sluggo/akhet (Mercurial) Bugs:https://bitbucket.org/sluggo/akhet/issues Discuss:pylons-discuss list

Akhet is a Pylons-like application template (or “skeleton”) for the Pyramid web framework, along with a small support library to make Pyramid a bit easier to use. This manual explains Akhet and also attempts to be a gentle introduction to the Pyramid manual, which some people find overwhelming at first. This manual assumes you’re familiar with Python web development.

Coming soon: tutorials for new web developers, and a higher-level skeleton with more batteries. These are being written by third parties.

Features

• URL dispatch and view handlers, similar to Pylons’ Routes and controllers.
• Asks whether to configure SQLAlchemy.
• Sets up a transaction manager for request-wide commit and rollback.
• A script to initialize the database (replaces “paster setup-app”).
• Serves static files under “/”, mixed with your dynamic URLs.
• Listens on localhost:5000 by default.
• Logging configured in development.ini and production.ini.
• Templates ending in .html are passed to Mako (or to your desired templater)
• A helpers.py module tied to the h template global. (You can also choose your own template globals.)
• “handlers”, “models”, and “lib” are packages to give plenty of room for large applications.
• An extensible home page template, site template, and default stylesheet.

Documentation

• Usage
• Pyramid Vocabulary
• Paster Commands
• Akhet Architecture
• Default templates and stylesheet
• Transaction manager
• Model Examples
• Authentication and Authorization
• Testing
• Internationalization
• Migrating a Pylons Application to Akhet
• Upgrading from pyramid_sqla
• API
• Other Pyramid features
• Bugs and TODO
• Full Changelog

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Akhet was previously called “pyramid_sqla”; it was changed to reflect its evolution from a SQLALchemy application skeleton to a more full-fledged Pylons-like skeleton. The SQLAlchemy library from pyramid_sqla was spun off to the “SQLAHelper” package.

The word “akhet” is the name of the hieroglyph that is Pylons’ icon: a sun shining over two pylons. It means “horizon” or “mountain of light”.

Akhet was developed on Python 2.6 and Ubuntu Linux 10.10. Pyramid runs on Python 2.4 - 2.7; Mac, Windows, Unix; CPython, Jython, and Google App Engine. It does not run on Python 3 yet; several dependencies are being updated for that.