importd: A Python repository from malteo

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What is it?

Slides of a talk I gave about importd: http://amitu.com/importd/

Django is awesome, but starting a new project in it is a pain. importd is inspired from ruby's sinatra. Hello world django project:

from importd import d
d(DEBUG=True)

@d("/")
def idx(request):
    return "index.html"

@d("/post/<int:post_id>/")
def post(request, post_id):
    return "post.html", {"post_id": post_id}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    d.main()

To run it:

$ python foo.py

This will start the debug server.

To run it in production:

$ gunicorn foo:d

Some examples: https://github.com/amitu/importd/tree/master/examples

Backward Incompatibile Change

d.main() used to be not required, now it is.

Features

fully compatible with django
supports smarturls
most of regularly used django functions and classes available in d. namespace, eg d.HttpResponse, d.render_to_response, d.get_object_or_404 etc
automatically maps "templates" folder in foo.py directory to serve templates
automatically maps "static" folder in foo.py to serve static content
management commands still available: $ python foo.py shell
wsgi compliant
gunicorn support
works seamlessly with fhurl (http://packages.python.org/fhurl/)
Auto Add django-debug-toolbar (Needs to add it manually to INSTALLED_APPS)
Auto SECRET_KEY: If no SECRET_KEY on settings, try to read SECRET_KEY from ./secret.txt , if no ./secret.txt generate a random string then write it to ./secret.txt and finally return it as SECRET_KEY.

Installation

$ pip install importd

Documentation

docs: http://packages.python.org/importd

ChangeLog

https://github.com/amitu/importd/blob/master/ChangeLog.rst

Contributors

Amit Upadhyay (https://github.com/amitu)
Dmytro Vorona (https://github.com/alendit)
Jannis Leidel (https://twitter.com/jezdez)
Lukasz Balcerzak (https://github.com/lukaszb)
Juan Carlos (https://github.com/juancarlospaco)

Contribution Guide

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Pull Requests: If you fork this repository to send pull request, please create a branch for your work instead of working directly on master. This way your master will track my master, and in case the pull request is rejected, or delayed, your master stays clean. This also makes easy to send more than one pull requests from your fork.

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