Python Web Frameworks, but not Flask or FastApi
Published: 2021-07-31 02:07:19

After reading yet another Flask/FastApi article I decided to shed light on some other python web frameworks.  I have nothing against Flash/FastApi, I'm sure they are great pieces of software, however there are other solutions out there that are in some cases much more mature. 

###[Zope](https://www.zope.org)
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Zope is a free and open source web application server written in the object-oriented programming language Python. Since its release in 1998, Zope continues to grow into many distinct applications, frameworks, libraries and tools. The World of Zope highlights the most important components.

###[Twisted](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/)
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Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source ​MIT license. It supports CPython 3.5+ and PyPy3.  Learn more about ​writing servers, ​writing clients and the ​core networking libraries , including support for SSL, UDP, scheduled events, unit testing infrastructure, and much more

###[Tornado](https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/)
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Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. By using non-blocking network I/O, Tornado can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.

###[AIOHTTP](https://hackr.io/blog/python-frameworks)
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Asynchronous framework AIOHTTP is a Python framework that relies heavily on Python 3.5+ features, such as async & awaits. The Python framework makes use of Python’s asyncio library, and is hence an asynchronous framework. In addition to being a server web framework, AIOHTTP can also serve as a client framework. It provides a request object and router to enable the redirection of queries to functions developed to handle the same.

###[Bottle](https://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/)
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Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library.

###[Cherrypy](https://cherrypy.github.io)
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CherryPy allows developers to build web applications in much the same way they would build any other object-oriented Python program. This results in smaller source code developed in less time.  CherryPy is now more than ten years old and it is has proven to be very fast and stable. It is being used in production by many sites, from the simplest to the most demanding.

###[Pylons](https://www.pylonsproject.org)
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The Pylons Project is composed of a disparate group of project leaders with experience going back to the very start of Python web frameworks.
Collectively, we have experience and humility gained by making (and surviving) every stupid decision that could be imagined. We aim to bring fresh ideas to classic web development problems.
Rather than focusing on a single web framework, the Pylons Project develops a collection of related technologies. The first package from the Pylons Project was the Pyramid web framework.
Other packages have been added to the collection over time, including higher-level components and applications. The project has become an ecosystem of well-tested, well-documented components which interoperate easily.

###[WEB2PY](http://web2py.com)
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Free open source full-stack framework for rapid development of fast, scalable, secure and portable database-driven web-based applications. Written and programmable in Python (version 3 and 2.7).

###[Django](https://www.djangoproject.com)
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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of Web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. It’s free and open source.

###[Falcon](https://falconframework.org)
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Type – Microframework Aimed at rapidly building web APIs, Falcon is another widely used Python framework. Unlike other Python frameworks that require loading a lot of dependencies for building HTTP APIs, Falcon allows developers to build a cleaner design that enables HTTP and REST architectures.

###[Giotto](https://github.com/priestc/giotto)

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Giotto is a python web framework. It encourages a functional style where model, view and controller code is strongly decoupled.

###[Growler](https://github.com/pyGrowler/Growler)
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Growler is a web framework built atop asyncio, the asynchronous library described in PEP 3156 and added to the standard library in python 3.4. It takes a cue from the Connect & Express frameworks in the nodejs ecosystem, using a single application object and series of middleware to process HTTP requests. The custom chain of middleware provides an easy way to implement complex applications.

###[Hug](https://github.com/hugapi/hug)
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Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.

###[TurboGears](https://www.turbogears.org)
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TurboGears 2 is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears 1 (of course), Django, and Rails. All of these frameworks had limitations that frustrated us, and TG2 was built as an answer to that frustration.

###[Sanic]()
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Sanic is a Python 3.7+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast. It allows the usage of the async/await syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy. Sanic is also ASGI compliant, so you can deploy it with an alternative ASGI webserver.

###Conclusion

As you can see there is no shortage of python web frameworks to choose from for you next project.  Flask and FastApi are good pieces of software but there is SO much more the python ecosystem has to offer.