Quixote: a Python-Centric Web Application Framework (Linux Journal)

[Posted July 22, 2002 by corbet]

The Linux Journal has an introduction to the Quixote web application framework written by one of its authors. Quixote, of course, is the framework used here at LWN. "Thus, in creating Quixote, we shamelessly stole Zope's best idea (mapping URLs to Python objects) and geared the whole thing towards Python programmers. The most obvious example of this is that where Zope maps URLs to arbitrary objects in an object database, Quixote maps them to Python packages, modules and functions--objects that are easily created and manipulated by Python programmers using nothing more than a text editor. The result is a web application framework that makes the creation of dynamic web pages so easy it almost feels like cheating."