State of PyramidPaul Everitt

PloneConf/PyCon Brasilia, 2013

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Self-Indulgence

• Prehistoric

• Web, Python, Zope, Plone, Pyramid, Substance D

• Agendaless Consulting with Chris and Tres, Fredericksburg

• Manage large web projects...yep, I’m pimping

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About You

• Who is not a Plone person?

• Who has used Pyramid?

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Overview

• Pyramid Background

• Current Status

• What’s Next

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What is Pyramid?

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What is Pyramid?

• Python (2 and 3) web framework

• Merger of repoze.bfg (from the Zope guys) and Pylons

• Not Zope

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Goals of Pyramid

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Only Pay For What You Eat

• Easy to start

• Few choices forced on you

• Small codebase

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Quality

• Full test and docs coverage (culture of docs and tests)

• Performance, profiling

• Maturity (bug fixes, doc updates)

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Small to Big

• “Start Small, Finish Big, Stay Finished”

• Starting point and finishing point

• Unique features that let you scale your design (configuration, events, custom renderers, view predicates, traversal, ...)

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...and more

• Multiple template languages

• SQLAlchemy (or others) for storage/retrieval

• Authentication and authorization

• Sessions, events, i18n, resources and traversal, advanced configuration, ...

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The Now of Pyramid

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Pyramid 1.5

• 1.5a2 is feature complete

• No Chameleon! No Mako! No nuthin’!

• Very easy to add

• Hybrid routes/traversal

• pdistreport

• View matches on inheritance

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Community

• Upswing in contributors

• Big increase in events

• At this conference

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Documentation

• Deep developer

• “Evaluator” (Quick Tour, Quick Tutorial)

• Python 3, Pylons

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Deform2

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Substance D

• Pyramid content framework for “civilized” web applications

• Not an application

• SDI (ZMI), Content Types, Forms, Security, ZODB, Cataloging (deferred), Undo, References, Workflow, Dumping, Stats, ...

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Leonardo Rochael Almeida

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demo.substanced.net

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Next

• Marketing (storytelling)

• Documentation (Traversal, Add-on)

• Events

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