Top 10 Frameworks of Python

Python is a high-level and object-oriented programming language. It is also an interpretive

language that can be used to create rapid applications with many existing frameworks.

Frameworks ﾧ are a set of structured code library that helps to develop the web application faster
and quicker and more reliable by providing common patterns. It reduces the usage of routine
elements for the developer and allows them to focus more on application logic.

We have framed the top ten trending frameworks that are widely used by global developers for
web application development in Python language. There are three types of Frameworks available
in Python ﾧ namely Full-Stack, Micro and Asynchronous.

Before deciding the framework, the developer should consider the size and complexity of the
application. If it is a large project, the full-stack framework is the best choice but in the case of a
smaller system, microframework is the sufficient one.

Full Stack Framework:

The Full-Stack frameworks include essential elements like form validation, template layouts, and
form generators to provide full support to the developer to handle large scale applications.

Some of the Full-Stack Framework of Python in Detail

Django:
This framework has great number of built-in features that are free-to-use and open source for the
developers. It is developed by Django Software Foundation and released in July 2005. It is very
helpful for the developers to develop complex source code easily and in less time compared to
other frameworks.

Django ﾧ follows the principle of DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) and MVT (Model-View-
Template) architecture to handle big databases and users.

Django uses ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) for mapping objects to tables of the database. Here
the migration of code is simple from one database to another. Django works with the main
database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle.

Key Features:
 Plenty of ready-to-use libraries
 Best URL Routing
 Template Engine
 DB Schema Migration
 Authentication Support
 ORM Feature
 Web Server Supports

Giotto:
This is MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern framework which supports web developers, web
designers, and system administrators to work independently and perform their functions
effectively. Giotto ﾧ has a controller to create applications on top of the web, IRC (Internet Relay
Chat) and command line.

Key Features:
 Automatic URL Routing
 Functional CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) Patterns
 Generic Models and Views
 Multiple Plug-gable Controllers
 RESTful interface
 Persistence of Database

Pylons:
Pylon ﾧ is a framework developed in December 2010 for the rapid development of applications
integrated with the best elements and properties of Perl, Ruby, and Python. Pylon has high
flexibility in its structure for the web development and promotes reusability and uses WSGI (Web
Server Gateway Interface) concept.
Key Features:
 HTML Form Generation and Form Validation
 Text-Based template
 Routes
 Best URL Mapping
 URL dispatch

Pyramid
Pyramid is an open-source and python-based framework for web applications to minimize the
complexity of the development. The major benefit of Pyramid framework ﾧ is that it can be able
to work with small and large scale web applications with a multitude of resources as per the
requirements.

Key Features:
 Flexible Authentication and Authorization
 Predictors and Renders
 Single file applications
 URL Generation
 Template specification

Cubic Web
CubicWeb ﾧ is an open-source and semantic Python Web framework that is developed by Logilab
and it is free-to-use. This is based on the data model to get a functional application. It uses
separate models and views with the use of Cube. To create an instance it needs multiple cubes to
collaborate with the help of a database, a web server, and some configuration files.

Key Features:
 Supported by OWL (Web Ontology Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework)
 Reusable Components
 Multiple databases
 Secured workflows
 RQL (Relational Query Language) Embedding for simplifying the data related queries

Micro-Framework
Micro-Frameworks are generally lightweight which does not provide any additional features and
functions like form validation, database abstraction layer, specific tools, and libraries.

Some of the Micro-Framework of Python as follows:

Bottle
The Bottle ﾧ is developed by Marcel Hellkemp, used to create small web applications and it
creates a single source file of every application. Python Standard Library only to be used to create
small web applications other than this it has no dependencies.

Bottle helps the developer to focus more on hardware and develop simplistic personal apps, and it
is the best solution for understanding the web frameworks and prototyping. And moreover, this is
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) based framework.

Key Features:
 Built-in HTTP Server
 URL Parameter Support
 Supports various database’s plug-ins
 Simple access from cookies, file uploads, and data
 Adapter support for WSGI/HTTP Server.

CherryPy
CherryPy is an open-source oops based Python Framework developed by Remi Delon which
follows the minimalistic approach. It can run on any OS and it has its multi-threaded web server. It
does not need the Apache server for CherryPy apps.

CherryPy ﾧ Apps is used to various types of technology for data access and templating and so on.

Key Features:
 Powerful configuration system
 Flexible built-in plugin system
 It can be run on android
 Supports testing, profiling, and coverage by default
 Run different HTTP servers simultaneously

Dash
Dash ﾧ is the best micro-framework specially used for developing analytical web applications. It
is the most helpful tool for novice developers on data scientists application development.

Web applications developed with Dash framework are the web servers that run Flask and integrate
with JSON packets through HTTP requests using with ReactJS and it has the extended
capabilities.

Key Features:
 Error handling is done with DDS (Dash Deployment Server)
 High-degree of customization
 LDAP Integration with DDS
 Best support of Plugins
 URL Routing with DDS

Asynchronous Framework
The asynchronous framework provides the feature to handle a large set of concurrent connections
in a single time and it is built especially for Python developers to use the asyncio library of the
programming language.

Some of the Asynchronous Framework of Python explained here

Tornado:
Tornado ﾧ is an open-source python framework developed for a company called FriendFeed later
it is taken over by Facebook in 2009. It is an asynchronous network library and it uses non-
blocking network I/O devices to solve the C10K issue which means it can handle more than 10000
concurrent connections at a single time.

Key Features:
 Performs with high-quality output
 Supports User Authentication
 Web Templating based on python
 Non-Blocking HTTP Client service
 Localization and Translation support
 Real-Time Services

Sanic
Sanic ﾧ is a simple open-source framework of python to provide fast HTTP responses through
asynchronous request handling to make more compatible with async/await functions of Python 3.5
for enhancing the speed. The fast and potential of Sanic is proved by processing 33,342 requests at
a time.

Key Features:
 It can able to read and write cookies
 Allows various types of logging like access log and error log
 Plugin support
 Views are class-based
 Supports blueprints for sub-routing inside the applications
Final Note:
All of the above-mentioned frameworks are helpful for python web service developers according
to the coding style and preferences and the size of the application. By choosing the right
framework provides the best result on the successful project.

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