Pylons

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Pylons is a framework for python. In the same way the rails is a framework for ruby. See the official website. Pylons can be deployed via FastCGI on Dreamhost.

Python

The easiest way would be to do a Virtual Python installation as described in Python#Virtualenv.

Installation

easy_install makes the installation a blast; just refer to the Pylons documentation.

You may find the Django instructions helpful as well.

FastCGI

The FastCGI installations apply, except that you don't need to limit the FastCGI script to dispatch.fcgi, other names with .fcgi suffix seem to work too. fcgi.py seems to be more reliable than Flup on Dreamhost.

wget http://svn.saddi.com/py-lib/trunk/fcgi.py

Here is a working script, found in [1].

#!/home/username/bin/python

from paste.deploy import loadapp
from fcgi import WSGIServer

app = loadapp('config:/home/username/www.yourdomain.net/yourini.ini')
server = WSGIServer(app)
server.run()