Building Pyramid applications with PyCharm

We’ve seen three popular web frameworks so far. There is one left that is listed in PyCharm’s New Project menu: Pyramid. You can find details on Pyramid at https://trypyramid.com/.

The organization behind Pyramid bills it as a framework that allows you to start small, finish big, and stay finished. To my mind, this might be a little bit of a dig at its main competitors. Django is criticized as being overly opinionated, and for being overkill for small projects. This fits with the “start small” idea in Pyramid. You have more leeway in choosing the components for your application, and you can leave out what you don’t need. For example, you can choose from a couple of ORM libraries, or simply choose not to use one. Django really wants you to use theirs.

Flask, in contrast, doesn’t come with an ORM or anything really, besides Jinja2 for templating. Flask is criticized for not being performant in...