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Ride the whirlwind!

The goal of whirlwind is to provide an easy to use python framework built on top of todays fastest tech. The whirlwind code base was originally developed as the underling web framework for the social media metrics and analytics platform http://www.trendrr.com.

Underlining technologies

• tornado web server (http://www.tornadoweb.org)

"Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed."

• mongodb (http://www.mongodb.org)

"MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, document-oriented database."

• mako templates (http://www.makotemplates.org)

"Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance."

Current status

Currently whirlwind is in a pre alpha state. Meaning you can use it but its constantly changing and not considered stable for production deployment.

Bug reports, feature requests, user community

Please file bug reports and feature requests in the whirlwind github issue tracker. You can also vote up existing feature requests on the issue tracker.