wmark/anzu

Info:	See github for the latest source.
Author:	W-Mark Kubacki <[email protected]>

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Key differences to vanilla Tornado

• Supports non-regex handlers, which are plain strings in a dictionary. Greatly reduces the overhead for requests.
• Localization is based upon the standard Gettext instead of the CSV implementation in the original Tornado. Moreover, it supports pluralization exactly like Tornado does. By Alexandre Fiori.
• Templating is done by Mako, which features everything the original templating module could (including compiling into native Python modules) and which has mature error reporting functions.
• Validation by FormEncode with decorators similar to TurboGears'.
• If dev-python/murmur is installed, static files will be hashed by Murmurhash2 and not SHA1 or MD5.
• Sessions support from Milan Cermak. You can store session data in files, MySQL, Redis, Memcached and MongoDB.
• Has Location and Path decorators, courtesy of Jeremy Kelley, Peter Bengtsson et al.
• Supports the way faster ultrajson (aka ujson) and python-cjson (aka cjson). ujson is faster and thus preferred over cjson.

Example

import anzu.httpserver
import anzu.ioloop
import anzu.web

@anzu.web.location('/')
class MainHandler(anzu.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.write("Hello, world")

@anzu.web.path(r'/(\w+)')
class SecondHandler(anzu.web.RequestHandler):
    def get(self, name):
        self.write("Hello, %s" % name)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    application = anzu.web.Application()
    http_server = anzu.httpserver.HTTPServer(application)
    http_server.listen(8888)
    anzu.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

`Location`s are being looked up first.

Please see the demos folder for more examples.

License

Like Tornado Anzu is licensed under the Apache Licence, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html).

Installation

To install:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

Anzu has been tested on Python 2.6 and 2.7. To use all of the features of Anzu, you need to have PycURL and a JSON library like simplejson installed.

On Mac OS X, you can install the packages with:

sudo easy_install setuptools pycurl==7.16.2.1 simplejson

On Ubuntu Linux, you can install the packages with:

sudo apt-get install python-pycurl python-simplejson

On Gentoo, you will need the OSSDL overlay prior installing with:

sudo emerge dev-python/anzu