Welcome to PyChee

PyChee is a lightweight Apache/Python framework that was written over the course of a sporadic weekend. Its aim is to be a lightweight python deployment for exporatory development, designed to host a number of projects on disparate subdomains.

Installation

PyChee is hosted on github. Get it at http://github.com/philippp/PyChee!

Prerequisites: Apache: Modify the PythonPath cited in .htaccess to your project root, and you should be good to go. Feather: run lib/handler_feather.py to start the server

History

0.1 (Weekend one, 11/22/09)

Currently PyChee forces each controller to reference a single template, with a routing of /foo calling the index() method of controllers/foo.py and rendering views/foo.tmpl. A simple "Hello world" is implemented through controllers/hello.py and views/hello.tmpl, stop by http://pychee.notphil.com/hello and check it out. Immediate goals include routing for methods, so that a routing of /foo/bar will call the bar() method of controllers/foo.py and attempt to render views/foo/bar.tmpl

0.2 (Weekend two, 11/28/09)

It's thanksgiving weekend, so I don't expect to get too much work done on this. We are now resolving routes past the controller name to the method (ex: /foo/bar calls the bar() method of controllers/foo.py). This behavior can be modified by overriding the dispatch() function in controllers/__init__.py. Immediate goals include switching mod_python out for mod_wsgi.

0.3 (January 2010)

Instead of updating mod_python to mod_wsgi I decided to branch away from the apache stack and try a coroutine server