Open Source Python Web Development Software

Mezzanine is a powerful open source content management platform built using the Django framework. In many ways it is like many other content management tools, offering an intuitive interface for managing all of your content. But Mezzanine is different in that it provides most of its functionality by default. While other platforms rely heavily on modules or reusable applications, Mezzanine comes ready with all the functionality you need, making it the more efficient choice. Mezzanine has a simple yet highly extensible architecture that lets you really get into the code. Apart from the features that come with Django such as MVC architecture, ORM, templating and caching, Mezzanine comes with a great many other features. This includes hierarchical page navigation, a simple drag-and-drop HTML5 forms builder with CSV export, scheduled publishing, easy page ordering, social media sharing, and so much more.

Wagtail is a powerful, open source content management system that’s focused on flexibility and user experience. Built on Django, Wagtail offers precise control and flexibility for designers, developers and editors. Designed by developers for developers, Wagtail plays nicely with everything else in your tech stack so you can do more and focus on perfecting your site. Designers will find Wagtail’s simple templating system ideal for building beautiful websites just the way they want, without any CMS constraints. Editors can create beautiful, modular streams of content that they can create once and publish everywhere. Simply put, it’s the CMS that makes everyone happy!

Otto is a pythonic web frame work based on XIST and Webware. It can be used to generate forms from arbitrary python objects.