Question

I have a application written in Twisted and I want to add a web interface to control and monitor it. I’ll need plenty of dynamic pages that show the current status and configuration, so I hoped for a framework that offers at least a templating language with inheritance and some basic routing.

Since I am using Twisted anyways I wanted to use twisted.web – but it’s templating language is too basic and it seems that the only framework, Nevow is quite dead (it’s on launchpad but the homepage and wiki are down and I can’t find any documentation).

So what are my options?

• Is there any other twisted.web based framework?
• Are there other frameworks that work with twisted’s reactor?
• Should I just get a web framework (I’m thinking web.py or flask) and run it in a thread?

Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

Since Nevow is still down and I didn’t want to write routing and support for a templating lib myself, I ended up using Flask. It turned out to be quite easy:

# make a Flask app
from flask import Flask, render_template, g
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")
def index():
    return render_template("index.html")

# run in under twisted through wsgi
from twisted.web.wsgi import WSGIResource
from twisted.web.server import Site

resource = WSGIResource(reactor, reactor.getThreadPool(), app)
site = Site(resource)

# bind it etc
# ...

It works flawlessly so far.