A blocking equivalent to Tornado?

Question

I've been working with Tornado and have gotten very used to it's overall style and syntax. Currently, I would like to write a website (in Python) that does not require the asynchronous, non-blocking capabilities of Tornado. Obviously, I can use frameworks like Django or Pylons, but I was wondering if there was a particular Python setup that would most closely resemble Tornado but be blocking, rather than non-blocking.

Note: I've been experimenting with Django, but I feel as if it is a bit heavy-weighted for my current needs. What I liked about Tornado was its relative simplicity and flexibility while still being capable of scaling nicely should that become a concern. (Maybe I just need to keep plugging away with Django until I've become totally accustomed to it, but that's outside the realm of this question.)

Also note: I am not looking for a subjective opinion, rather, I am looking for someone to suggest, based on experience with the different Python frameworks (which I am lacking), similar design setups to Tornado.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Turbo gears 2 looks promising as it has been built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears 1, Django, and Rails

Turbo gears 2

Answer 2

I've also used Tornado and CherryPy web framework looks pretty 'similar' to Tornado: very easy to use, intuitive and very pythonic too. CherryPy is blocking by default (and I think is the only way to use it). Hope it helps you.

Cheers!

Answer 3

My favorite "minimal" frameworks are: Flask http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/ and Pyramid http://www.pylonsproject.org/ .

Big difference to tornado is that they are WSGI (hence blocking) and have lots of web-site-like plugins for the things you need to do deploying web-sites.

Flask has lots of examples around and is really easy to start with.

wish you fun