Nevow (pronounced like the French nouveau) is a Python web application framework originally developed by the company Divmod. Template substitution is achieved via a small Tag Attribute Language, which is usually embedded in on-disk XML templates, though there is also a pure-Python domain-specific language called Stan, for expressing this markup programmatically. Nevow integrates well with Twisted, a framework for event-driven programming.
| Original author(s) | Donovan Preston[1][2][3][4] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Divmod |
| Initial release | May 6, 2004 |
| Stable release | 0.14.4 / June 14, 2018[5] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web application framework |
| License | MIT License |
Nevow had 960 unit tests as of June 2008,[6] and was deployed on several high-profile web sites, most notably the official Python site.[7]
As of mid-2010, Divmod went out of business,[8] causing development work on Nevow to all but cease, and in 2011 its homepage was no longer accessible.[9] There is a project on Launchpad, hosting the source code of Divmod[10] including the source code of the Nevow project.[11]
Athena
Athena is a Nevow component which facilitates bi-directional, asynchronous communication between the Python and JavaScript portions of a web application in the form of remote procedure calls. This technique is typically called Ajax or Comet, though Nevow's implementation predates both of these labels.[12] Athena also includes an inheritance-based JavaScript object system, which forms the basis of a client-side widget abstraction, module system and in-browser unit testing kit.
