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Asked: 2026-05-22T19:49:12+00:00

I need to create a project that has a web frontend to manage synchronous

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I need to create a project that has a web frontend to manage synchronous task execution (ala fabric), async tasks (AMQP), and long-polling/ajax for tabular viewing of results and queues/large, frequently changing datasets (think tail -f syslog). I have an existing Python codebase for a lot of the implementation-specific stuff.

After looking at a bunch of existing frameworks, the obvious answer appears to be Django+Celery. However, I do not want to “learn Django”, nor do I need 95% of it’s functionality. I just need simple auth, maybe sqlalchemy, easy ajax, amqp, xmlrpc would be helpful.

I would consider using Mongrel2, but I have a strong preference for RabbitMQ over 0MQ (for a few implementation-specific reasons).

I originally spent a great deal of time learning Twisted, and ended up getting a few hundred useful LOC out of it, but I found that I was twisting (lol) too much of my platform code to fit it’s callback model. It actually ‘fit the bill’ very well (except with it’s own amqp implementation), but it was so frustrating, and I went through so many iterations of code (one for each ‘twisted ahah moment’), that it’s 100% out.

Can somebody please help me wade through the mire? Tornado? Pylons? repoze? Pyramid? Flask? Bottle? CherryPy? Web2py? Paster/Webob? Anything else@ http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks?

Edit:

To be clear, integration with RabbitMQ (or another amqp provider) is of the utmost importance, and is really the crux of problem.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t have a full vision of python web frameworks but just want to share my point of view on 2 of them :

    • Bottle is light and works fine. If you want something easy to learn and easy to use that may be the right choice. I used it for quite simple front-end apps running locally and i liked it very much.

    • Tornado seems to me as a very good non-blocking server for real-time web app. Combined with tornadio it makes ajax-long-polling quite easy. However, it may be a little harder to learn than Bottle. I would recommend to have a look to the chat app in the example folder of tornadio.

    I hope it helps

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