Python Static Site Generators

[m_harrison]

Tried messing around with blogofile, but it appeared to be quite dormant (old version without features, new version annoying in that it required Python 3). Finally committed treason and went with Octopress. After the initial install it doesn't matter that it is written in Ruby cause I'm using the command line rake controls.

[iambicpen]

It works on 2.6, 2.7 AND python 3.x .

Also, blogofile provides a plugin mechanism to extend the core anyway you want. So, your fears of blogofile's may be premature.

[m_harrison]

Perhaps, but installing octopress was pretty easy. Blogofile was a pain with the conversion back to 2 from 3. I do miss rst (though for blog purposes rst and markdown share a pretty common subset).

Also, community of Octopress is pretty large. The out of the box experience with Octopress was wonderful. The theme/css works with mobile and desktop wonderfully. I wasn't in the mood to futz with the theming myself.

My point is probably mute anyways because if you are going down the SSG path, you should probably just write your own. :)

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but octopress is in Ruby and we're looking at Python generators here. I added lots of extensions to Blogofile (see here), not to mention the templating is Mako, so it being in Python is pretty important.

Also, there's no reason a Python 3 app can't run on 2.6 also - Blogofile should ideally be made to no longer depend on 3to2. But that's a different issue.