simplerouter

simplerouter is a simple WSGI/WebOb router partially based on the router described in WebOb's DIY Framework Tutorial. Python 2.7 and Python 3.2 and newer are supported.

Documentation is available at readthedocs.org.

The main git repository is available at Bitbucket.

Installing

simplerouter uses a setup.py script in the usual fashion, like so:

$ python ./setup.py install

Alternately, simplerouter is available on pypi and can be installed using pip:

$ pip install simplerouter

Quick Example

app.py:

from simplerouter import Router

router = Router()
# view names are composed of modulename:function
router.add_route('/post/{name}', 'views:post_view')
router.add_route('/', 'views:index_view')

application = router.as_wsgi

if __name__=='__main__':
    from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
    make_server('', 8000, application).serve_forever()

views.py:

from webob import Response

def post_view(request):
    post_name = request.urlvars['name']
    # ... process post_name
    return Response("Post output for %s"%post_name)

def index_view(request):
    return Response("Site index")