weppy is a full-stack python web framework designed with simplicity in mind.
The aim of weppy is to be clearly understandable, easy to be learned and to be used, so you can focus completely on your product's features:
from weppy import App, request, response
from weppy.orm import Database, Model, Field
from weppy.tools import service, requires
class Task(Model):
name = Field.string()
is_completed = Field.bool(default=False)
app = App(__name__)
app.config.db.uri = "postgres://user:password@localhost/foo"
db = Database(app)
db.define_models(Task)
app.pipeline = [db.pipe]
def is_authenticated():
return request.headers["Api-Key"] == "foobar"
def not_authorized():
response.status = 401
return {'error': 'not authorized'}
@app.route(methods='get')
@service.json
@requires(is_authenticated, otherwise=not_authorized)
def todo():
page = request.query_params.page or 1
tasks = Task.where(
lambda t: t.is_completed == False
).select(paginate=(page, 20))
return {'tasks': tasks}Installation
You can install weppy using pip:
$ pip install weppy
Documentation
The documentation is available at http://weppy.org/docs. The sources are available under the docs folder.
Examples
The "bloggy" example described in the Tutorial is available under the examples folder. While we're still populating this folder with more examples, you can also take a look at H-Funding, which uses many of weppy's features.
Starter kit
Aside from the examples, we encourage you to look at the starter kit and the convenient scaffold generator written by MJ Davis. These projects can really help you writing your next weppy application.
Benchmarks
weppy is one of several Python web frameworks included in TechEmpower benchmarks. Here are some snippets from the results (Python 3):
ORM
| framework | req/s | performance gain |
|---|---|---|
| weppy 1.0.1 | 40690 | 2.1x |
| pyramid 1.6.1 | 28342 | 1.5x |
| django 1.9.4 | 25525 | 1.3x |
| flask 0.10.1 | 19495 | 1x |
JSON serialization
| framework | req/s | performance gain |
|---|---|---|
| weppy 1.0.1 | 257196 | 3.1x |
| pyramid 1.6.1 | 172666 | 2.1x |
| flask 0.10.1 | 106679 | 1.3x |
| django 1.9.4 | 83390 | 1x |
Status of the project
Since version 1.0 weppy can be considered stable. Is compatible with Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.
weppy is currently used in production by:
How can I help?
We would be very glad if you contributed to the project in one or all of these ways:
- Talking about weppy with friends and on the web
- Participating in weppy users group
- Adding issues and features requests here on GitHub
- Participating in discussions about new features and issues here on GitHub
- Improving the documentation
- Forking the project and writing beautiful code
License
weppy is released under the BSD License.
However, due to original license limitations, some components are included in weppy under their original licenses. Please check the LICENSE file for more details.

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