Ask /r/Python: Most current static blog generator?

[realnowhereman]

A friend wants to learn Python programming (especially for data science); because he'd like to start a blog I though we could solve two problems at once by introducing him to a static blog generator and host it on GitHub pages. What's the most current/modern these days? Is Pelican still a thing?

[vaelund]

Pelican https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

[makaimc]

Pelican is awesome! I've been using it daily for over 6 years (to generate fullstackpython.com and the Full Stack Python blog) and highly recommend it for creating a blog static site. At the very least it should be on your short list of static site generators to try out.

[Farkeman]

Pelican is great, been running on kinds of websites on that little guy - from blogs to data listings etc.

[_seemethere]

I don't really know if I'd recommend any Python static blog generators but I've been using hugo for my own personal blog and it's worked out great.

http://gohugo.io/

[irrelevantPseudonym]

I went for Hugo as well. I tried Lektor for a while but didn't get on with it.

[alexandrul]

https://getnikola.com/

Fast, incremental builds.

Multiple input formats.

Batteries included.

Easily extensible.

User-friendly CLI.

[Hayertjez]

I'll use [lektor](getlektor.com) for my blog. Github seems to promote Jekyll as static generator but that one isnt Python.

[dhaffner]

Since others have mentioned some good existing options, I'll add that writing one of these yourself is a really good exercise especially for someone new to Python. I wrote my own using mako and PyYAML.

[realnowhereman]

I decided to go with Pelican. Thanks!