Pylons

Here's a list of packages Pylons users would like to see written.

Upgrade to Buffet. (Mike Orr is working on this.)

An HTML validator written in pure Python. uTidylib, WDG, and the offline HTMLHelp.com validator all depend on C and/or Perl libraries that are hard to install, are old, or don't work right. Ideally this would be a middleware or something in Controller._after_ that would add error messages to the HTML document like the W3C online validator does. One possibility would be to use Mechanize to forward the request to the W3C validator, but this would require a live Internet connection and would slow down the transaction turnaround. You'd also have to scrape the page to see if there was an error, and revert to the original output if not. We can take the DTDs from another project and use a good SGML parser to parse the document. Would sgmllib be adequate? Is there a test suite or checklist somewhere of what it should check for? (This could be done by piping the request to one of the online services; this wouldn't require any library. A little slow, but probably fine. - Ian) (I created a middleware for pylons that uses the online W3 validator service, and then caches the result. Pylons W3 Validator Middleware - Chris).

An improvement to Pudge. Ask Ben Bangert for details. Improvements also to buildutils; ask Ben or Ian Bicking about this. Note: Apydia (http://apydia.ematia.de/) is probably a better direction than improving Pudge.

ToscaWidgets documentation.

Tool that builds on/extends Paste to handle common deployment tasks (see Capistrano for python).