Kangapy: Components

1 PM May 17, 2004

I named my blogging software ‘Kangapy,’ partly in the tradition of CherryPy, partly for it’s association with that great Australian icon, Skippy.

Kangapy is built with:

  • Twisted – for the web framework.
  • pysqlite – a DB-API interface to sqlite. A truly neat little database engine.

* pytextile – text formatting. Version 2 has been released since I started, and I’ll have to try it out.

  • webunit – unit testing framework from Richard Jones.
  • dateutil – used to do date arithmetic with months.

I am grateful to the authors of all this software for generously releasing under such liberal licenses. Thankyou!

Kangapy development is continuing in my commuting hours, and I am certainly learning much about Python and web development. The codebase is up to 6800 lines in 32 files. The sqlite database has 851 items—a mixture of articles, blog entries and comments—and I just collected my first blogspam today.

Kangpy currently embeds all of its HTML in Python code. The next challenge is to move to an HTML templating system, which ought to cut the lines of code count markedly. Nevow is the likely candidate, but I’m not looking forward to the learning curve. It may be time to try Webware.

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