Appy framework (gen + pod)

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Current release: Appy framework (gen + pod) 0.3.0

Released 2009-03-27 — tested with Plone 2.5, Plone 2.1

First version of appy.gen, a new code generator for Plone that goes beyond ArchGenXML for building complex web applications. appy.pod includes many improvements and is compatible with OpenOffice 3.0

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Appy framework 0.3.0

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The Appy framework (Applications in python) is a bunch of tools distributed under the GPL license for developing applications in the Python programming language. The framework features two main modules: gen and pod.

gen is a code generator that allows you write web applications without having to face and understand the plumbery of a given web framework. gen protects you. Concentrate on functionalities that need to be implemented: gen will fight for you, by itself, against the low-level twisted machineries and will let you evolve in your pure, elegant and minimalistic Python world.

pod (python open document) is a library that allows to easily generate documents whose content is dynamic. The principle is simple: you create an ODF (Open Document Format) text document (with OpenOffice Writer 2.0 or higher for example), you insert some Python code at some places inside it, and from any program written in Python, you can call pod with, as input, the OpenDocument file and a bunch of Python objects. pod generates another ODF text document (ODT) that contains the desired result. If you prefer to get the result in another format, pod can call OpenOffice in server mode to generate the result in PDF, DOC, RTF or TXT format.