Python Paste
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Python Paste -- 50% tastier than Elmer's!  
Paste: making the web sticky.  
Fix broken websites by applying a Paste liberally.
Paste: paper over your inconsistencies. 
Paste: a soft mixture of malleable consistency.  
Paste: a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers.  
Paste: the glue that won't hurt you when you eat it.
Python Paste: the web extruded into the form of a snake.
Paste: the vinegar eel.
Paste: you bring the cut.
Paste: a doughy substance from which to make metaphorical web cupcakes.

Python Paste brings consistency to Python web development and web
application installation, providing tools for both developers and
system administrators.

Paste for Administrators
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* Easily install, run, and configure multiple Paste-enabled web
  applications at once, and integrate them into your website how you
  want (SCGI, FCGI, AJP, WSGI)

* Manage and install web applications system-wide for easy maintenance

.. comment:

  * `See an installation example <install-example.html>`_ or `read more
    about what Paste-enabled means... <enabled.html>`_

Paste for Web Developers
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* Increase your web application's audience

* Provide starter templates and custom commands for using your web
  framework

* Keep your development and deployment straightened out, and your
  automated testing streamlined

* Attention payed to the full development cycle -- starting projects,
  converting old projects, updating and deploying projects -- using a
  set of `complimentary packages and tools <related-projects.html>`_

* `read more about some of the available features
  <developer-features.html>`_

.. comment:

  * `See a development example <develop-example.html>`_ or `read more
    about using Paste in your
    applications... <developer-features.html>`_

Documentation
=============

* `Contributing developer guidelines <DeveloperGuidelines>`_
* `Style guide <StyleGuide.html>`_
* `Testing applications with Paste <testing-applications.html>`_
* `URL parsing with WSGI <url-parsing-with-wsgi.html>`_

Components
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* `Paste Deploy <./deploy/>`_

* `Paste Script <./script/>`_

* `Paste Module Index <module-index.html>`_

* `Paste WebKit <./webkit/>`_

* `Wareweb <./wareweb/>`_

* `WSGI specification <http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html>`_

* `Example application: to-do
  <http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/apps/Todo_SQLObject_ZPT/trunk/>`_.

* `Example application: FileBrowser
  <http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/apps/FileBrowser/trunk/>`_

License
=======

Paste is distributed under the `Python Software Foundation`__
license.  This is a BSD/MIT-style license.

.. __: http://www.python.org/psf/license.html
