Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

It's going to be hard to get the 'best' framework, but you'll certainly get a lot of responses of frameworks that definitely work for people. I'll add:

Tornado

http://www.tornadoweb.org

Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by dfrankow » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:30 PM UTC

The most often mentioned is Django.

We picked Tornado (tornadoweb.org) because it is lightweight and fast, especially on cold start, which is an app engine issue for low-traffic apps. It's even faster than webapp (!) because webapp loads the Django templating system.

We've been happy with Tornado, although it doesn't have as much support for some stuff (e.g., web forms). It does have a templating language which is just embedded python. I like having the power to have a reasonable "if" statement or "for" loop, even though most people believe that embedding complex logic in templates will produce spaghetti.

Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by Kilimanjaro » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:31 PM UTC

None. Just use webapp and you'll be happier, and faster.

Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by badragon » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:37 PM UTC

Tipfy

Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by mikemaccana » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:40 PM UTC

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #6

None. Just use webapp and you'll be happier, and faster.

We use django, but yes, google only officially support webapp and you may end up having to translate docs from appengine entities to django objects.

Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:42 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Best Python Framework for Google App Engine?

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Post by nixarn » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 10:45 PM UTC

badragon wrote: post #7

Tipfy

Agreed. Tipy is awesome! http://www.tipfy.org/