Web micro-framework battle - Richard Jones
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering questions about lightweight Python web frameworks or REST/JSON services, since it gives a side-by-side comparison in which Bottle came out on top.
Recommended by 3 people across 4 different months, 2011 to 2013.
What it is
A PyCon AU 2011 talk in which Richard Jones surveys the Python web micro-frameworks available at the time and compares them by implementing the same simple application in each. It runs about 45 minutes and covers roughly ten frameworks.
What people said
Recommends Raymond Hettinger · 2011-10 · Stack Overflow · on “What Python framework for a REST/JSON web service with no front end?”
At Pycon Australia, Richard Jones compared the most popular lightweight web frameworks. Bottle [LINK] came out on top. Here is the full presentation [this video] .
Recommends Raymond Hettinger · 2011-11 · Stack Overflow · on “serving logs via HTTP”
Flask [LINK] and Bottle [LINK] are popular choices for this kind of lightweight HTTP work. At PyCon AU, Richard Jones compared and contrasted about ten such frameworks: [this video] His video is worth watching.
Recommends Sven Marnach · 2012-03 · Stack Overflow · on “What is a good, lightweight, Python web development framework that is currently under active development?”
Here's a video of a presentation by Richard Jones at Pycon Australia [this video] , evaluating ten (or so) lightweight web frameworks. Bottle wins that comparison.
Recommends ron rothman · 2013-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Making a pure RESTful data-service service in Python (no web pages - just calls & responses)”
It's easy to use Bottle to build a clean, RESTful API in front of an existing service. I've used it several times (Bottle + Apache + mod_wsgi) with great success. Flask is probably another good choice. Here's a video [this video] and (its corresponding slides [LINK] ) that compares several web microframeworks. It's a couple of years old, but still might be helpful.