Kotti is a high-level, Pythonic web application framework. It includes a small and extensible CMS application called the Kotti CMS.
Kotti is most useful when you are developing applications that
Built on top of a number of best-of-breed software components, most notably Pyramid and SQLAlchemy, Kotti introduces only a few concepts itself, thus hopefully keeping the learning curve flat for the developer.
You can try out the built-in CMS on Kotti’s demo page.
The Kotti CMS is a content management system that’s heavily inspired by Plone. Its main features are:
For developers, Kotti delivers a strong foundation for building different types of web applications that either extend or replace the built-in CMS.
Developers can add and modify through a well-defined API:
Kotti has a down-to-earth API. Developers working with Kotti will most of the time make direct use of the Pyramid and SQLAlchemy libraries. Other notable components used but not enforced by Kotti are Colander and Deform for forms, and Chameleon for templating.
Continuous testing against different versions of Python and with both PostgreSQL and SQLite and a complete test coverage make Kotti a stable platform to work with.
You can download Kotti from the Python Package Index, it takes only a few moments to install.
Please report any bugs that you find to the issue tracker.
If you’ve got questions that aren’t answered by this documentation, contact the Kotti mailing list or join the #kotti IRC channel.
Kotti itself is developed on Github. You can check out Kotti’s source code via its GitHub repostiory. Use this command:
git clone git@github.com:Pylons/Kotti
To run Kotti’s automated test suite, do:
bin/py.test
Or, alternatively:
bin/python setup.py test
Thanks to the following people for support, code, patches etc:
- Andreas Kaiser
- Andreas Zeidler
- Christian Neumann
- Jeff Pittman
- Mike Orr
- Marco Scheidhuber
- Nuno Teixeira
- Steffen Lindner
- Tom Lazar
- The University of Coimbra
- Consipere