waitress
Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3 (by Pylons)
Werkzeug
The comprehensive WSGI web application library. (by pallets)
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waitress | Werkzeug | |
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3 | 11 | |
1,370 | 6,526 | |
2.3% | 0.4% | |
7.2 | 8.5 | |
25 days ago | 9 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
waitress
Posts with mentions or reviews of waitress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-07.
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what are 3 django packages everyone should know about?
Waitress - for serving your application easily (pairs very well with Whitenoise).
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Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
If you’re delegating your load balancing to something else further up the stack and would prefer a simpler WSGI server than Gunicorn, Waitress is worth a look: https://github.com/pylons/waitress
Werkzeug
Posts with mentions or reviews of Werkzeug.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-03.
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Flask like web framework under 100 lines of code
The angle brackets on their own should be a sign that this is not the case, because that's not regular expression syntax. Flask uses werkzeug.routing instead. In fact, the module docs specifically call out the difference:
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Django or Flask and why?
Flask doesn’t support ASGI; neither does Werkzeug. The official guidance for running Flask with an ASGI server is to wrap it in middleware. The open GitHub issue for Werkzeug to support ASGI is #1322.
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PEP 661 -- Sentinel Values
Werkzeug, a core library used by Flask, has one as well (I used it as a model for mine).
Werkzeug (library used by Flask) had a repr for its sentinel long before getting type annotations.
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New Versions Released! Flask 2.0 with async
Flask getting async support is a huge step for the asyncio web ecosystem in Python. I wonder how Flask's ASGI support will evolve in parallel with Quart[1] which bills itself as the ASGI version of Flask and is maintained by a member of the Pallets team. One of the maintainers of Werkzeug even recommended using Quart[2]
[1] https://pgjones.gitlab.io/quart/
[2] https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/issues/1322#issuecomment...
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15x speedup for flask/werkzeug form multipart file upload with bytes.find() and bytes.rindex()
The PRs are this initial one and this update. Also note this issue - almost 5 years to close :o.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing waitress and Werkzeug you can also consider the following projects:
gunicorn - gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
uwsgi - Official uWSGI docs, examples, tutorials, tips and tricks
bjoern - A screamingly fast Python 2/3 WSGI server written in C.
meinheld - Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)
Paste - Paste is in maintenance mode. Please consider other options.
flask - The Python micro framework for building web applications. [Moved to: https://github.com/pallets/flask]
fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production