We're looking at the next phase of development for our webapp, and the main focus will be to move the core from the app to a web service so other systems can use the data we've gathered (we're thinking along the lines of the XML API of Highrise from 37Signals).
Its possible that we'll extend the service to allow access via vanilla XML, JSON, and YAML at some point, however we've decided to use Facebook's Thrift for connectivity initially to support as many techs as possible and also because our web interface for the app is written in PHP. As we're extracting the core we'll be translating it to Python to make use of the wealth of well-structured libraries and hopefully make the project shorter. However, we've hit a snag in choosing a framework around which to rebuild the service. It seems the more popular frameworks (django, turbogears) are all focused on providing web content. Since our core will be using thrift to communicate, we don't need templating, feeds, admin pages (django), or ajax (turbogears). What we *do* need is a lightweight, simple framework that will allow us to create a RESTful interface and throw code together fast. We'll probably go with SQLObject (unless we can extract the ORM from django - lazy evaluation would be very useful), and we're just looking for something fast and light to sit between that and the thrift interfaces we'll create. So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
