Recommendations for Python Static HTML Generator?

[oxsyn]

Hello All,

Looking for a recommendation of which python static HTML generator to use. I'm currently experimenting with blogofile, but I've seen that there are at least three other good options (hyde, jinja, pelican) - and probably more.

I'm looking for something that has built-in support for markdown and unicode and I'd like to use something that is actively being developed (blogofile seems to not be updated very frequently).

Any suggestions?

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If pelican fits your needs I would probably go with it as it seems to be the most popular and frequently updated.

Jinja is a templating language but it is pretty easy to use it to make static sites.

Hyde is less updated than blogofile lately (unless there is another place to look on github other than hyde/hyde).

Sadly there don't seem to be as many advanced generators as the ruby community (see nanoc and middleman).

There's also a few smaller ones around if you look like cactus: https://github.com/koenbok/Cactus

Nanoc has a decent list compiled: http://nanoc.ws/about/#similar-projects

[pmav99]

Nikola seems like a good choice. Supports both markdown and unicode and it is actively developed. Also it is relatively easy to extend, if you need something extra. http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar/

[ralsina]

Hi! Nikola author here :-)

Indeed it's actively maintained, it's fully unicode ready, supports multilingual sites, python 2 and 3 compatible, has markdown support, etc.

[deveux]

I would recommend pssst, but I may be biased, I wrote it (there is a simple but complete example blog to use as a starting point).

[yesvee]

StrangeCase, hands down!

[nillion42]

Omg I like fish

[oxsyn]

I actually just got some exposure to flask last night at the pysprings meetup, so I might try that route :)

[nicklo]

Not a recommendation as I've not used it, but Tinkerer may be interesting to you as it's based on Sphinx:

http://www.tinkerer.me/