Beaker is a library for caching and sessions for use with web applications
and stand-alone Python scripts and applications. It comes with
WSGI middleware
for easy drop-in use with WSGI
based web applications, and caching decorators for ease of use with
any Python based application.
- Lazy-Loading Sessions: No performance hit for having sessions active in
a request unless they're actually used
- Performance: Utilizes a multiple-reader / single-writer locking
system to prevent the
Dog Pile effect
when caching.
- Mulitple Back-ends: File-based, DBM files, memcached,
memory, and database (via SQLAlchemy) back-ends available
for sessions and caching
- Cookie-based Sessions: SHA-1 signatures with optional AES encryption for client-side
cookie-based session storage
- Flexible Caching: Data can be cached per function to different back-ends, with different
expirations, and different keys
- Extensible Back-ends: Add more backends using
setuptools entrypoints
to support new back-ends.
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Source
Beaker's Mercurial repository can be found at
http://bitbucket.org/bbangert/beaker/.
To check out:
hg clone http://www.bitbucket.org/bbangert/beaker